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[Guest]

As a general question, "Is there a way to sort questions and replies by date
order, when reviewing a discussion group for most recent posts?

Thanks,

 

[MrB]

Usually by clicking on the top of the date column.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

As a general question, "Is there a way to sort questions and replies
by date order, when reviewing a discussion group for most recent
posts?

Thanks,

Not if you are using the web based newsgroup interface. You can do this
using Outlook Express to access the newsgroups. If Outlook Express is your
default email client, click the following link to create a newsgroup
account.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Or go here for general setup instructions.

Outlook Express: Getting News from Newsgroups:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/oe/gettingnews.mspx

This provides many more customization options.

 

[Guest]

Use Outlook for mail and calander. From previous post clicked on "a" date
(don't see a specific date column), got giant screen with a complete post,
clicked the back arrow and everything was resorted by date. A year looking
at news groups and that's the first time I thought to sort by date.

Thanks All,

 

[Ken Blake]

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As a general question, "Is there a way to sort questions and
replies
by date order, when reviewing a discussion group for most
recent
posts?

You are using the web interface to read this newsgroup. It's the
slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method there is, and gives
you the fewest number of capabilities. Do yourself a favor and
switch to a newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with
Windows.

See http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm



If you use Outlook Express, you can sort by date simply by
clicking on the heading "Date" at the top of the column. Click it
a second time to reverse the sort from ascending to descending,
or vice-versa.

 

[Guest]

Ken,
Loaded outlook and followed prompts to select oe as news reader, based on
link, picked group ie6-borwser, the posts reead real well but need to work on
being able to jump to others to find specific answers "my photoes don't
print" "my jpegs save as bmp's" "can i set the machine to double boot" ect..
But will expect it will come with time.

Thanks

 

[David Candy]

Need to work on what? What's wrong with search or View Options.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Loaded outlook and followed prompts to select oe as news
reader,
based on link, picked group ie6-borwser, the posts reead real
well
but need to work on being able to jump to others to find
specific
answers "my photoes don't print" "my jpegs save as bmp's" "can
i set
the machine to double boot" ect.. But will expect it will come
with
time.

Thanks

You're welcome, George. Glad to help.

But I'm somewhat confused. First, you replied to this message
with the web interface, as you did before, not with Outlook
Express. Is it just that you haven't fully converted to Outlook
Express's use yet?

Second, you say "need to work on." Note that you can use Edit |
Find to search for particular messages, and you can also sort by
any column shown, such as Subject, in the same way as I explained
below about Date. Either or both of those techniques should help
you find what you're looking for.

Finally, if you want to search older messages, the tool to use is
Google Groups, at
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en

 

[Guest]

Nothing is wrong with it all you need is someone to point you in a direction.
View/Sort By/Sort Decending ordered posts by most recent first. Find/"Sort"
in the Subject line brought back my original post and "Sort" in the Message
line brought back seven or eight posts including mine with sort, sorting or
sorted in the message body.

Shows you old dogs can learn new tricks and very old dogs just sleep all day.

Last question and I'am history. To send this post I went back to the
original microsoft.com to reply since I did't know weather to "Reply To
Sender" or"Reply To Group, in OE.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

As mentioned in most previous post I don't no wehter to "Reply To Sender" or
"Reply To Group" in OE, so I keep flipping back and forth between
IE/Microsoft.com and Outlook/News/OE/Newsgroups.

Thanks,

 

[Ken Blake]

In

As mentioned in most previous post I don't no wehter to "Reply
To
Sender" or "Reply To Group" in OE, so I keep flipping back and
forth
between IE/Microsoft.com and Outlook/News/OE/Newsgroups.

You should "Reply to Group." That gets the message here. "Reply
to Sender" sends an individual E-mail message to just the person
you're replying to.

Replying to the group rather than the individual lets everyone
see the reply, add something to it, comment on it, correct
errors, etc. It keeps the thread as it should be: a public
discussion, rather than a private one. Moreover, many of us here
use fake return E-mail addresses because we don't *want* to get
private E-mail. My return address, for example, is
(e-mail address removed). A reply sent to me at that
address will *not* reach me.

 

[David Candy]

Always, always, always Reply To Group. Never, never, never Reply.