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how do I change the message plane to expand and shrink today/this week/older view?

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douggathmann
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I noticed one of my email accounts was shrinking the list of messages I received into 3 or 4 rows in the message plane- I believe it was Today/ Yesterday/Last Week and Older-- each row had on arrow to open that list then it would show only the opened rows(lists) by the dates. I wanted to adjust this feature but somehow it disappeared and now all my messages are listed and not divided up by the date. I can't find any controls for this feature--- I am speaking about the VIEW of the messages in the message plane and shrinking and expanding by the dates.

I noticed one of my email accounts was shrinking the list of messages I received into 3 or 4 rows in the message plane- I believe it was Today/ Yesterday/Last Week and Older-- each row had on arrow to open that list then it would show only the opened rows(lists) by the dates. I wanted to adjust this feature but somehow it disappeared and now all my messages are listed and not divided up by the date. I can't find any controls for this feature--- I am speaking about the VIEW of the messages in the message plane and shrinking and expanding by the dates.

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Zenos
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You need to go to the menu at least three times!

  1. View|Sort By|Date - gets you messages into date-sorted order.
  2. View|Sort By and choose Ascending or Descending so you can choose oldest first or youngest first.
  3. View|Sort By|Grouped by Sort will re-introduce the Today/Yesterday/Older grouping.

Each group can be collapsed or expanded using its little +/- button.

If you touch any of the column headings (date, subject, correspondent, etc) it will re-sort and undo the grouping. But now you know how to restore it.

Note if you first sort by subject or sender then do View|Sort|Grouped by Sort, it will form groups according to the sorting category. So you can collect together all messages in a thread on the same topic, or all messages from particular senders.

However, I'd normally use the QuickFilter Bar to locate particular messages, topics, senders or dates quickly.