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echo: bluewave
to: Dan Ceppa
from: Nancy Backus
date: 2005-05-29 00:32:38
subject: Re: Sorting Message Areas

-=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 05-24-05  23:50 <=-

 DC>> I think I've done it before, but I forgot!  
 DC>> How can I sort the order that BW displays my message areas?  
 DC>> I don't want to change their numbering.  But, I want to change 
 DC>> the order that they display.  
 NB> As I'm a week or so behind, this has probably been already answered to
 NB> death, but...  For a particular area, go back to the listing of areas
 NB> and use the Alt-S, and choose which way you want to sort it.  It

 DC> That's not quite what I want it to do!   
 DC> I can get the individual areas to sort that way.  I'd like to get 
 DC> the Areas themselves to sort that way!    
 DC> IOW, I have Echo AAA showing up in BW as being after Echo FFF  

Oh...  Hmmm...   My echos show up in Numeric Order, not Alpha...  And I
just went looking, without success, to find any way of changing the
order of that listing...  Hmmm...

 NB> It's also one of the global parameters you can set in your Message
 NB> Read Preferences.  Your choices either place are To, From, Subj, and
 NB> Unsorted.

 DC> As above, those only seem to pertain to the individual Echo.  

OK... true...

 DC> I have this bad fealing that I have to do something with another 
 DC> program that I really am hard trying to avoid!   

Could be... :(

ttyl    neb

... To boldly go where no sane person has any business.

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