Sorting Tasks by Category

[Chigongman]

Outlook 2003 SP2.

Is there a way to place a button on the toolbar or some other method to
allow me to sort my Tasks by the Category column? (Having the choice of
Ascending or Descending would be nice, too, but that doesn't look likely.)
The best I've been able to find is to put the Arrange By button on the
toolbar, but then I have to drag down it to Categories every time.

I'd like to be able to make this a one-click choice so I can go back and
forth easily between a sort by Category versus any other main column (all the
rest of which seem to sort fine by just clicking on the column heading, but
not Categories).

(As a separate question, is there a way to create a Sort on the Category
field that will let me specify a secondary and tertiary field to sort on?)

Thanks!

Jay

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

A little lesson in viewing Categories:

Tasks, Contacts, Emails, Calendar items (anything in Outlook) can be shown
in Groups using

1. The Arrange by function ( Not a favourite of mine as I find it clunky and
limited)

Or...

2. Turn on the Advanced Toolbar and you can instantly change you View to By
Category (in Tasks and Contacts). You change the View in the Current View
window. In folders you don't have a By Category View in the drop down
Current View window, you can manually group By Category using the Group By
Box.

Whilst on the advantages of the Advanced toolbar - use the Field Chooser to
add the field you want to see in that View.

Outlook cannot Sort by Category as it's a multivalued field (an item can be
in more than one Category)

When it Groups, an item in more than one Category, shows in each relevant
Group.


I hope this helps you at least a little bit!

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
www.acorntraining.com.au
Canberra, Australia

"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." (Woodrow
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