stan pierce wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
stan pierce wrote:

All of a sudden I must have hit something by mistake. My entire list of
Email folders including groups is in complete reverse order. Is there a
simple way to reverse this?

Easy peasy.

At the top of the list of accounts, you'll see the column heading
"Name." Click it.

Thank you.


A further thought -- resorting a column by clicking on the header is not something just limited to email, but nearly universal for anything that supports column-centric display. To me, the Windows Explorer is the most obvious, but almost any other application will support that, as well, even some web things that are viewed in a browser.

Although there's nothing wrong with setting a default order and keeping it, there can be times when it's useful to change the sorting order, as a different order may give you a different view of your data, especially when a list is long.

With my email, I normally sort chronologically -- for some folders, I put the most recent at the top, for others, I put the most recent at the bottom.

However, if I'm looking through a large folder that has hundreds or thousands of messages (especially where the content may have years of accumulated content), sorting by sender or size may give may a quick view of something I wouldn't see otherwise, and without having to use the search tool.

When I'm done with whatever searching I'm doing, then I typically re-sort the folder back to the normal, preferred order.

Ultimately, that's the use of the Flag option -- to allow you to flag specific messages (according to your own criteria), and then re-sort a folder, and forcing those messages to the top or the bottom of the list.

If I remember correctly, Flag isn't one of the options that is included in the default folder display. Thus, tick the icon at the top of the scroll bar in the summary pane, and there's several additional columns that you may find useful to include in your display (and you can also not show certain columns that are in the default, if they're not useful to you).

Smith

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