Outlook 2003 drag and drop to subject not possible?

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When messages order by subject is was possible in OL 97 to drag and
drop a message to one specific "subject-group", thereby changing
automatically its subject. This was very practical to manage achives
and to-do listing in a very fast way and to order e-mails and posts
concerning same subject.

Now it seems not to be possible to drag any longer.

Very sad! Is there a way to work around?

Thanks.

Jutu
 
Can't this can be done programmatically?
- Select the mailitem with the preferred subject.
- Click a toolbar button which executes a macro to read and save the
subject line.
- Select another mailitem to change.
- Click the same toolbar button to execute the macro again, read the
original subject, confirm/quit, and perform the operation. (Yes, and
maybe deal with a security warning.)

Sure, there's coding involved, but as I've pointed out here a few
times in this one sitting today, it's not that Outlook can't do
something, it's that the functionality isn't natively included, but
the programmability/extensibility of the environment makes up for
that. Who's going to write the code? Well, where there are paying
customers there are always willing developers.

Tony
 
The average user isn't interested in paying for custom code to do something
they expect in the basic product -- especially in this case where the same
functionality was available in previous versions.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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