Custom Views. And they're better than what you're describing. You can make a mixed custom view of all items (messages, tasks, calendar events, contacts, notes), or just a subset of those, or just one; and set criteria to be just one category, or any of 3 categories, or don't limit category at all (I think that's what you're asking for here), but sort the results by category by clicking on the category column. Then you will have all messages, tasks, events, contacts and notes (or whichever you specified) all bunched together. if you're allowing all categories, then you might want to specify a different filter, such as a date limit: allow in only items no more than a week old. Or whatever.
There are a lot more filters available for specified items than for mixed views, but it's still very powerful. The one major limitation is that you can't combine subsets of AND and OR in the criteria: either it's 'when ALL criteria are met' or 'when ANY criteria are met'. But usually you can get what you want one way or another (it might take more than one custom views).. You'll find a few more sophistications and subtleties (and common sense) about them when you eventually upgrade to Entourage X. But even in 2001 they're a very powerful feature, quickly scanning the entire database. They're in your Folder List, with a few built-in ones ready-made as examples. They're actually just the same thing as an Advanced Find (Edit menu). But you SAVE the criteria (not the results) when you make them Custom Views. Going to one gives you a dynamic snapshot of the current state of your database, selected as you choose. Have fun. -- Paul Berkowitz > From: David Wignall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:07:29 +1200 > To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Flag member of groups > > on 26/3/02 5:05 am, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On 3/25/02 1:01 AM, "David Wignall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Is there any way to group on _all_ categories at the same time, the way >>> (Win) Outlook and Lotus Notes do? >> >> I don't understand the question. You must be using the word "group" in a >> way I'm not familiar with. Can you explain in more detail what you mean? > > (Alan Watson had the same question) > > Yeah sure. Sorry, I was a wee bit excitable in front of the keys, yesterday. > > Outlook has customisable views for its messages and so forth. One such view > allows you to group by category. This will bundle up all your > mail/contacts/whatever a la message threads. It uses a butt ugly Windows > Explorer +/- style of widget to expand or collapse the view. Notes has the > same idea for Contacts By Category except they uses disclosure triangles > like us. > > Now, the nice thing is that an item will appear under each category it has, > within the same window. For instance in one folder I have some messages with > the Mailing List category, others with the Personal category and some that > have both. The folder would display two groups, Mailing List and Personal. > Messages with both categories assigned are available under each group. > > Spent too much time searching for a decent screenshot on the net. This > <http://www.uwec.edu/help/OLCalendar/categories.htm> is the best I can come > up with. Might grab one from work tomorrow, if anyone cares. It's a lovely > tool for most things, brilliant for managing contacts. The only thing I like > about Outlook, really. > > Any of this make sense? Does to me, cos I know what I mean ;) > > -- > Dave > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
