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EcoLouise - 02 May 2006 17:52 GMT

I am new to Outlook 2003. I primarily use it only for email and organizing a
contact list with a several categories. I am having trouble sorting the
contacts while maintaining the categories. In the previous version, I could
just click the column header to sort my contact list and the categories were
maintained. Not so with this version. Any help?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 02 May 2006 18:05 GMT

You'll need to go through the View | Arrange View | Current View | Customize Current View dialog to get it arranged the way you want with both grouping and sorting.

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>I am new to Outlook 2003. I primarily use it only for email and organizing a
> contact list with a several categories. I am having trouble sorting the
> contacts while maintaining the categories. In the previous version, I could
> just click the column header to sort my contact list and the categories were
> maintained. Not so with this version. Any help?

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EcoLouise - 02 May 2006 18:22 GMT

I have done that. But I would rather not have to go through all those steps
if possible. Previously I could keep the categories arrangment and simply
sort by column header within categories. I sort and resort the list many
times a day and it was very easy before we upgraded. Is there no other way? I
will always want the contacts to be sorted first by category and then
throughout the day, I need to sort the categories by other colums.

Any other help?

> You'll need to go through the View | Arrange View | Current View | Customize Current View dialog to get it arranged the way you want with both grouping and sorting.
>
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> > just click the column header to sort my contact list and the categories were
> > maintained. Not so with this version. Any help?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 02 May 2006 19:08 GMT

If you need multiple sorts, create multiple views.

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>I have done that. But I would rather not have to go through all those steps
> if possible. Previously I could keep the categories arrangment and simply
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>> > just click the column header to sort my contact list and the categories were
>> > maintained. Not so with this version. Any help?

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