13th August 2001

Neatness counts, as does order and organization. At least to me, anyway. I live in Microsoft Outlook 2000 (SP1) and have picked up a few tricks along the way which have aided in maintaining my sanity (as well as helping me locate items quicker). You probably already know that you can click on a field title to order that folder's items (ascending or descending), but perhaps there are 864 emails from bgates @ microsoft.com (it could happen) and you want to order them by those which came with an attachment. Mash the SHIFT key and click additional field titles to help you do just that. So, you can sort stuff by date and then by subject, or by size and then by date. Get the picture? In case you weren't aware, clicking a field title a SECOND time orders the contents in the reverse order. This tip was submitted to me by a Gnomie, although his name eludes me for the moment. Forgive me; I had a long weekend. At least now I'll have time to "sort" it all out. Sorta.