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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / December 2005in outlook contacts I cannot sort by category
I did something that now when I attempt to sort my contacts by categories I get "You cannot sort this field" box. This only happens when I use the mouse to click the top of the column. It will sort when I go to view , arrange by. I tried reinstalling office 2003 but this did not solve the problem. It's not a problem, but by design. Since Categories is a field that can hold more than one value, sorting by it wouldn't make a lot of sense in many scenarios. What you do instead is group on that field, which will show all the items marked with each category in its own group.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I did something that now when I attempt to sort my contacts by categories I > get "You cannot sort this field" box. This only happens when I use the mouse > to click the top of the column. It will sort when I go to view , arrange by. > I tried reinstalling office 2003 but this did not solve the problem. Outlook is telling you the truth. Category sort is meaningless and impossible, since any contact may be listed under multiple categories. You can group by Category, not sort. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I did something that now when I attempt to sort my contacts by categories I > get "You cannot sort this field" box. This only happens when I use the > mouse > to click the top of the column. It will sort when I go to view , arrange > by. > I tried reinstalling office 2003 but this did not solve the problem. Outlook has NEVER enables sorting By Category. You haven't "done" anything. Outlook will Group By Category. Use the Group By Box and drag Category into it - now it will be grouped by Category. Or use the By Category view. BTW turn on the Advanced toolbars and save yourself a lot of clicks when changing views and manipulating the tables views. Judy Gleeson - MVP Outlook Acorn Training and Consulting Canberra, Australia see what Outlook training can do to improve productivity: www.acorntraining.com.au/pdfdocs/ProductivITwithOutlook.pps www.acorntraining.com.au/productivit.htm > I did something that now when I attempt to sort my contacts by categories I > get "You cannot sort this field" box. This only happens when I use the mouse > to click the top of the column. It will sort when I go to view , arrange by. > I tried reinstalling office 2003 but this did not solve the problem. Thanks Judy that has helped. Might have more questions later. Kevin > Outlook has NEVER enables sorting By Category. You haven't "done" anything. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > by. > > I tried reinstalling office 2003 but this did not solve the problem. |
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