Rules in Outlook should be in alphabetical order so that we could.

[Guest]

Outlook should allow for Rules in alphabetical order so that it would be easy
to find duplicates or email that is identified in different ways

 

[Vanguard]

Outlook should allow for Rules in alphabetical order so that it would
be easy
to find duplicates or email that is identified in different ways

WRONG WRONG WRONG

Rules are exercised in the order they are listed. Rules are OR'ed
together to overlap their effect if that is how you want them to behave,
or use the stop-clause to prevent any further rules from exercising
against the message. Order is very important as to which rules will
fire and which will even get tested against a message. Alphabetizing
them means you have no control over how your rules are exercised against
a message, and you won't know because another rule will screw up the
order of the rules again.

If you are defining more than a couple dozen rules then you need to
rethink your rules as many are overlapping each other, duplicating their
testing, or not short-circuiting later rules (by using the stop-clause)
to eliminate rules which no longer would apply or should not apply
against the message when the prior rule fired. Time to clean up your
rules.

 

[Guest]

Rules can be ordered as to how they will be employed, BUT that is no reason
why they could not be VIEWED alphabetically.

I have a huge number of rules and it was pain to located duplicates,
especially when they were not exactly alike.

Elka

 

[Vanguard]

Rules can be ordered as to how they will be employed, BUT that is no
reason
why they could not be VIEWED alphabetically.

I have a huge number of rules and it was pain to located duplicates,
especially when they were not exactly alike.

Elka

So your solution in easily find a rule - for which you would already
have to know its name - is to alphabetize the list and then have some
numerical rule order property assigned and displayed for each rule. So
now the person that is trying to determine how their rules behave
according to their order has to go bouncing around through the
alphabetized list, scrolling down a couple pages to find rul #5, then
scrolling around to see where rule #6 is listed, and then scrolling
around for rule #7, and so on.

You could click on the Contact Us link at the bottom of Microsoft's home
page to follow the links to send them feedback to their wishlist site.
Perhaps they could add a feature that would allow a "view" of the rules
sorted alphabetically without affecting their *order*.

 

[Guest]

I obviously have not made myself clear. Rules can exist and operate in a
given order. But they should ALSO be able to be viewed alphabetically
without disturbing their operational order.

And yes, I have cleaned up the mess.

Elka

 

[Vanguard]

I obviously have not made myself clear. Rules can exist and operate in
a
given order. But they should ALSO be able to be viewed alphabetically
without disturbing their operational order.

That is why I mentioned: