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[dot.hawkes]

Me being thick no doubt, but all opf a sudden last nite when i opened the inbox in hotmail all my stioored messages, (364) were suddenly in alphabetical order by the first letter of the sender. I can't get it back to the order of when recieved, what do i click on please?

[AussieGeoff]

G'Day Dot

Just open hotmail and click the Date heading itself. This will sort the mail into date order. If it is the wrong way round (say first received and you want last received at the top) just click date a second time and it will reverse the order.

Geoff

[dot.hawkes]

brilliant geoff, well done!!!!! i must have clicked it accidentally last night, nice one!!!!!!!! thankyou very much!!

[AussieGeoff]

G'Day Dot

Dont worry about it, it is just one of the disconcerting gotchas for those who have not been caught by it before.

Just for future reference, these sort of headings (where you can click on them) are known as "clickable headings" so you can sort mail, folders, files, whatever into whatever you want, date, filename, subject etc. The first time you click on a heading it will sort into order based on that, the second time it will reverse the order, the third time will reverse the order again etc.

What probably happened is that you accidentally clicked on the "From" heading so your mail was sorted by sender, if you had clicked on "From" a second time the order would have been reversed.

All you did was tell it to resort your mail by "Date" instead of "From"

You can do exactly the same thing for files/folders in Explorer; eg open a folder and click on Size - this will sort the files and folders into order by size (smallest to largest), clicking on size a second time will reverse the order. If you then click on Name it will resort the files/folders into name order.

Geoff