Outlook 2003 drag and drop to subject not possible?

[jutu]

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

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

yes, it's sad. I've found no workaround, alas.

 

[Tony Gravagno]

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

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

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