How to Sort Emails and Addresses in Outlook Express

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Are your emails and Address Book addresses all jumbled up with NO Logical Order. Outlook Express has a neat little trick to organize them.

• Steps

1. It is very easy for a novice user to accidentally make a mouse click in a box without knowing and rearranging the order of entries in both the email boxes and the address book lists.
2. First we will deal with the Inbox, Sent items, Deleted box, the same rules apply to all mail boxes
3. With Outlook Express open and one of the previous boxes displayed look very close in the boxes at the top etc. In one of these boxes notice a very light shaded triangle with either an up facing point or a down facing point.
4. If you missed it, look closely just right of the words or or . Hey! there it is. This little triangle sets the sort order in the column where it is placed.
5. Try clicking slowly two times on each word and and , note that each time a word is clicked the order of the emails changes A to Z ascending or A to Z descending.
6. The common place for this triangle is in the column so your emails are sorted by date and time, up facing point sorts the emails so that the newest are at the bottom. Choose which ever you prefer to use.
7. Outlook Express email Address Book is the same way, by clicking in the different header titles such as , you can sort the list.
8. One difference is the header has 4 clicks at your command. 1st click = last name first ascending, 2nd click last name first descending, 3rd click first name first ascending and 4th click first name first descending. Play with it and set to your liking.

• Tips
  This is a handy tool to find all the emails sent by one contact to locate an email that you may be looking for, click in the header and all the Jane Doe’s will be together and the Aardvark Smith emails will be together. Remember to set the sort order back to the column when you are done.

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