Outlook 2003: Sorting Tasks list removes groups

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Jonas Nordlund

Hello,

When I sort my Tasks list, for example by clicking the task creation
date column, I lose the groupings I have set up. In this case the
grouping by Category.

I can confirm it's removed by entering "customize current view" and
picking "group", where no field is then no longer set to group by. So
I have to re-enable this field each time I sort on one of the columns,
which is annoying to say the least. :-(

The strange thing is that I recall the grouping was preserved in an
earlier Outlook release (Outlook 2000?).

Any tips? Am I doing something incorrectly?

TIA,
Jonas
 
OK, yes, it wouldn't be any problem if I just wished to sort it once
and never sort any other field. :-)

I worked around this problem for now by setting Outlook 2003 to
automatically make groups from the sorted column with the checkbox
there's specifically for this. Doesn't make it work exactly as I
wanted, but at least I don't have to make a new group by Category each
time; I can just sort by Category to quickly make them. However, I of
course get less freedom that way and can't tell Outlook "this is the
grouping and it should be independent of how I sort things".

Thanks for the reply though.
 
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