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Question

Is there a way to put columns in alphabetical order?

Jul 3, 2011 5:44AM PDT

I use 4 different emails and gmail is the only one I can't put any column in alphabetical order. Am I missing something? Would be really handy to have all of one sender together for many reasons.

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Re: sorting
Jul 3, 2011 5:50AM PDT

I've done it in Outlook Express, when I still used that, and I do it regulary both in Thunderbird and in MS Outlook.In all of those email clients I can sort on all columns (like subject, sender, receiver, date, is-there-an-attachment etc).

What I'm missing in your post are the names of the 4 different email-programs you use.

Kees

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Jul 5, 2011 6:40AM PDT

I have accounts with Hotmail, Yahoo, MyWay, and Gmail. I can sort all the columns in all of them except Gmail. I don't understand why they would omit such a basic and useful tool. I use all of these accounts regularly for different types of mail.