On Thursday, August 29, 2002, 2:53:49 PM, Emaillists wrote: E> Could someone offer me a simple explanation of Color Groups. I E> thought I knew what it was for until I read the help item for it. Now E> I am lost. Sorry if this seems simple. Preferably, if someone could E> explain a practical use for it, I would really appreciate it.
You know how you can flag a message to make it stand out from the others in the message list? Colour groups do the same thing - except they allow you to have numerous flags, using different colours & fonts to make things stand out for differing reasons. An example: let's say you belong to a mailing list & sometimes a post comes in that you want to reply to, but you don't have time right now, or want to think about what you want to say for a while first. You could use a colour group called (for example) "Reply to this" so you don't lose the post, or forget. Let's say there's someone on that list whose posts are always terrific, & you want to highlight them - you could use another colour group (maybe call it "Great advice") to highlight those. You could even set up a filter to automatically apply that colour group to that person's posts when they're received. You can also filter messages on the criteria of what colour group they are. And maybe there are snippets of info on the list from time to time which apply to specific concerns. You could just flag the messages, but you could use a different colour group for each concern - that makes it really easy to find a specific message later. You could use a colour group to mark messages you want to reply to, as I've mentioned, & another colour group to mark those you've already replied to - at a glance you can see whether you'd planned to reply to anything else. Lots of possibilities - colour groups are a terrific feature :-) Does that help? -- Deborah ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
