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    Outlook 2003


    In Outlook 2003 how do you arrange sub folders?

    I want the sub folders to be arranged as in the first sub folder from "inbox" to be Monday. The second sub folder to be called Tuesday and so on until Friday.



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    It's for work so I have no option but to use Outlook 2003. Also as it is for work I do not need to have a folder for Saturday/Sunday. The sub folders do not get sorted alphabetically for me, dunno if it is because I am using Outlook 2003.
    Last edited by mangoh; 08 Jun 2013 at 08:04.
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    You have to make the folders in that exact order. Make "Monday" first, and then make "Friday" last.
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    It's not quite that easy. You will find Thurs and Fri find their own position, not the order of the week. here's the only workaround i can find. Bit of a compromise but it works.
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    mitchell65 said:
    It's not quite that easy. You will find Thurs and Fri find their own position, not the order of the week. here's the only workaround i can find. Bit of a compromise but it works.
    I don't see the workaround. Maybe it's a problem on my end. Can you post it in a different way?

    Anyway, I tried it myself past "Wednesday", and now I see that it orders them alphabetically. So if it were me, then I would number them like this:

    "1. Monday"
    "2. Tuesday"
    "3. Wednesday"
    "4. Thursday"
    "5. Friday"

    It doesn't look as nice, but that's how I would force them to be organized in the way that I want.
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    Sorry forgot to put in the link:
    How to Sort Outlook Folders in Arbitrary, Non-Alphabetic Order - About Email

    Just as you suggested anyway, using the number system!
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    Oh wow. lol Well. :)

    This kind of makes me wonder a little if any of the newer versions of Outlook provide a way to organize them by just clicking and dragging.
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    TwoCables said:
    You have to make the folders in that exact order. Make "Monday" first, and then make "Friday" last.
    Tried this already but still no luck

    mitchell65 said:
    It's not quite that easy. You will find Thurs and Fri find their own position, not the order of the week. here's the only workaround i can find. Bit of a compromise but it works.
    TwoCables said:
    mitchell65 said:
    It's not quite that easy. You will find Thurs and Fri find their own position, not the order of the week. here's the only workaround i can find. Bit of a compromise but it works.
    I don't see the workaround. Maybe it's a problem on my end. Can you post it in a different way?

    Anyway, I tried it myself past "Wednesday", and now I see that it orders them alphabetically. So if it were me, then I would number them like this:

    "1. Monday"
    "2. Tuesday"
    "3. Wednesday"
    "4. Thursday"
    "5. Friday"

    It doesn't look as nice, but that's how I would force them to be organized in the way that I want.
    mitchell65 said:
    Sorry forgot to put in the link:
    How to Sort Outlook Folders in Arbitrary, Non-Alphabetic Order - About Email


    Just as you suggested anyway, using the number system!
    This is what I was trying to avoid, using symbols/numbers etc...

    Any other ideas?

    TwoCables said:
    Oh wow. lol Well. :)

    This kind of makes me wonder a little if any of the newer versions of Outlook provide a way to organize them by just clicking and dragging.
    I'm intrigued as well.

    I would of thought such a basic thing wouldn't be so hard to do in the 21st century!
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    mangoh said:
    TwoCables said:
    You have to make the folders in that exact order. Make "Monday" first, and then make "Friday" last.
    Tried this already but still no luck

    mitchell65 said:
    It's not quite that easy. You will find Thurs and Fri find their own position, not the order of the week. here's the only workaround i can find. Bit of a compromise but it works.


    mitchell65 said:
    Sorry forgot to put in the link:
    How to Sort Outlook Folders in Arbitrary, Non-Alphabetic Order - About Email


    Just as you suggested anyway, using the number system!
    This is what I was trying to avoid, using symbols/numbers etc...

    Any other ideas?

    TwoCables said:
    Oh wow. lol Well. :)

    This kind of makes me wonder a little if any of the newer versions of Outlook provide a way to organize them by just clicking and dragging.
    I'm intrigued as well.

    I would of thought such a basic thing wouldn't be so hard to do in the 21st century!
    Yeah, well we're talking about that giant dictator known as Microsoft. :)
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    If you do resort to adding a number to the front of the name AND you have a lot of folders, you may need to start with 01, 02, 03, etc... or you may find it sorts like this:

    1
    2
    20
    21
    22
    .
    .
    .
    3
    30
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    I doubt this can be done without recourse to numbering. For what it's worth the latest version of Windows Live Mail behaves in exactly the same way! To save anyone else trying i have set put 1 Monday into Word then made the "1" white and tried to copy and paste but that still shows the "1".
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