martit01
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Trying to sort using the From colum
In the inbox user highlights an email and then clicks on the From colum heading and the emails will sort alphabetically, but it jumps forward to that person's name that was highlighted on the email. However, on some emails this sort feature doesn't always work. When another email is highlighted and then clicks on the From colum heading, it sorts alphabetically, but it doesn't jump forward to the person name on the email that was highlighted. The user then has to start typing in the person's name to make outlook jump forward alphabetically to that person's name. Any ideas?
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When an item is selected in Inbox and I click the From column, it sorts in ascending order from A to Z, leaving the selected item selected and automatically scrolled up to that selected item. However, on some occations, I do the same process leaving a certain item selected, but it only sorts in ascending order from A to Z WITHOUT doing the automatic scroll forward. It just defaults to the very first item in the colum, then if my selected item had been Washington for example, I would need to start typing W..A.. for it to scroll forward to Washington.
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What version of Outlook are you using?
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Outlook 2003 SP2
Try as I might I can't duplicate the behavior you're describing. I recommend running Detect and Repair to see if something has happened to Outlook. If that doesn't help, then the next step is to create a new Outlook profile for the affected user. It's amazing how many ills that cures.
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BlueDevilFan
We are running Exchange, so when you say create a new Outlook profile, is that done on the machine locally or over on the server side. I'm asking because I don't have access to Exchange. I would have to get our server guy to do that part.
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We are running Exchange, so when you say create a new Outlook profile, is that done on the machine locally or over on the server side. I'm asking because I don't have access to Exchange. I would have to get our server guy to do that part.
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> it jumps forward to that person's name that was highlighted on the email
Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by "jumps forward". When I select an item in my Inbox and click the From column heading the column sorts, either asecnding or descending, by that column, leaving the selected item selected and scrolling the list to keep hat item visible. By "jumps forward" do you mean that the items sort but Outlook does not keep the selected item visible onscreen?
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