Outlook should be able to SORT by different fields eg. Categories.

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Carlos - 14 Oct 2004 04:39 GMT

In task list when I add fields to the view, such as Categories, or Companies,
and I try to sort the list by them, it says "You cannot sort by this field".
Why is that?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 19 Oct 2004 02:41 GMT

Categories is a multi-valued field. Any single item can have multiple
categories, so a straight sort is potentially meaningless or at least
doesn't reflect the richness of the data. Instead, you group by Categories.

Companies works the same way.

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> In task list when I add fields to the view, such as Categories, or
> Companies,
> and I try to sort the list by them, it says "You cannot sort by this
> field".
> Why is that?

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