Hi Munango-Keewati,

Saturday, October 16, 2004, 1:13:13 AM, you wrote:

Munango-Keewati> If accidentally clicking on a column
Munango-Keewati> header nukes the view mode you
Munango-Keewati> spent an hour creating, it's hard to
Munango-Keewati> call that a feature.

Agreed.

Munango-Keewati> I use the (undocumented) Ctrl +
Munango-Keewati> RMB-click-on-column-header technique
Munango-Keewati> to multiply sort columns in my view
Munango-Keewati> modes.

Right click and Ctrl Right click seem to do the same thing. What am I
msising here?

Munango-Keewati>  For instance, in my Inbox
Munango-Keewati> view mode I might sort first by read
Munango-Keewati> status, second by received date,
Munango-Keewati> third by sender, and fourth by
Munango-Keewati> subject. (Very nice feature, by the
Munango-Keewati> way.) One errant mouse click on a
Munango-Keewati> column header and --bam!--it's gone.
Munango-Keewati> I have to recreate it from scratch.
Munango-Keewati> This is not a "feature" I
Munango-Keewati> appreciate.

Munango-Keewati> If sorting by columns changes the
Munango-Keewati> view mode, then it loses it's basic
Munango-Keewati> usefulness as a quick way to group
Munango-Keewati> together all messages from a given
Munango-Keewati> sender, etc.  Or view modes becomes unusable.

Agreed.

Munango-Keewati> Hold your cursor over a column header
Munango-Keewati> and right click.  You're offered
Munango-Keewati> the option to save the column
Munango-Keewati> settings to a view mode.  I should have
Munango-Keewati> to use this feature if I want the
Munango-Keewati> changes saved.  Otherwise they
Munango-Keewati> should be discarded when I move to a different folders.

Absolutely.

Doug



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