[gui-talk] One more try: Expanded/Collapsed out of control in OE
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Sat Aug 4 21:10:26 CDT 2007
It, the sort option, also changes occasionally, in Eudora, so for once it may not be a Microsoft problem (smile.)
Dave
At 07:58 PM 7/23/2007, you wrote:
>I've seen some occasions where mhy "sort by" option changed
>mysteriously; I don't know if I hit a bum key or if there's some problem
>with JAWS or OE. I just fix it and go on.
>
>Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sherri
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] One more try: Expanded/Collapsed out of
>control in OE
>
>
> Terrific! Sorry my explanation was so convaluted. Hope the problem is
> solved.
>
> Sherri
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 1:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] One more try: Expanded/Collapsed out of
>control in
> OE
>
>
> aha! What a crazy menu. Well, you're right. This was the setting that
> counts. And you know something? I had never, ever touched this
>setting, and
> it's checked. Or it was. I unchecked it. Let's see how long it remains
> unchecked. unch
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] One more try: Expanded/Collapsed out of
>control in
> OE
>
>
> It isn't in the view area that says group messages by conversation; it
>is in
> the "current views". It's not in the sort by area either. Try the
>"current
> views" and see what's checked. Good luck!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 4:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] One more try: Expanded/Collapsed out of
>control in
> OE
>
>
> Sherri,
>
> I'm sorry, but as I told Scott, what's checked in that list is still
>what's
> always been checked. I checked it anyway, in case it had gotten
>changed
> without my realizing it. but no, it's still Order by date received.
>I've
> never set it to arrange the messages by thread. See? Something's
>really
> wrong. I knew it.
>
> thanks a lot.
> hnever
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] One more try: Expanded/Collapsed out of
>control in
> OE
>
>
> y Joel, As usual, once I looked around for about 20 minutes, I found
>out it
> is very easy, though I don't know how to toggle this feature on and
>off.
>
> 1. In Outlook Express outside a message go to view.
> 2. On current views, press enter.
> 3. Arrow down to group messages by conversation and make sure that is
> unchecked.
> 4. Tab to okay and press enter. That should do it.
>
> Sherri
>
> Also, another user's group you might enjoy is accesscomp. To
>subscribe, send
> an e-mail to
> accesscomp-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
> HTH.
>
> Sherri
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 2:09 PM
> Subject: [gui-talk] One more try: Expanded/Collapsed out of control in
>OE
>
>
> Hi,
>
> As no one has yet responded to my inquiry on this issue, let me ask
>once
> more in hopes of attracting helpful attention to my plight.
>
> All of a sudden, messages in my Outlook express folders have begun to
> announce themselves as expanded or collapsed. I suppose it affects
>just
> emails that share a subject line, not only from mailing list threads
>but
> just from private correspondence.
>
> Well, I didn't set anything to mark my messages in this way. And the
>only
> controls I know of that relate to this are on the View menu, where you
>can
> choose expanded or collapsed. Which certainly does change the
>announced
> status of affected messages, now that some of them are marked this
>way. But
> what do you do to turn the whole damn thing off? I thought I knew the
>OE
> interface pretty well by now, but this has taken me by surprise. And,
> unaccustomed as I am to dealing with messages marked expanded or
>collapsed,
> I've had the unpleasant experience of accidentally deleting and
> double-deleting messages from a thread besides the specific one I
>really
> wanted to toss. This led to a lot of extra work yesterday in some
> professional correspondence. Not fun. Had to recreate all sorts of
>incoming
> and outgoing messages. Too much to explain.
>
> Now, I can only think of two ways this stuff could have begun
>happening. One
> is that I may at some point have hit the wrong keystroke or hotkey
> combination and toggled this deal on without knowing it; I'm sure I'm
>not
> the only keyboarder who's made such a blunder now and then and been
> mystified by the result, and had not idea how to undo the mistake. Or
>I
> guess it could be some sort of file corruption? But for me, Outlook
>express
> has been stable and dependable to the max, so I can't imagine how this
>could
> have happened.
>
> Anyway, I could swear I remember a discussion about expanded and
>collapsed
> threads coming up before on the GUI-Talk list, about how to set up the
> function and control it? the only other major tech support list I'm on
>is a
> Jaws-related JFW list, and there I'm sure one of the many hall monitor
>prigs
> would immediately have posted something sanctimonious about how unless
>I
> were to say that I felt Jaws was at fault, my question was egregiously
>off
> topic and I ought to be moderated. There's this little hard core of
> cyber-itinerant control freaks there whom I've seen pop up on several
>other
> lists over time, always trying to do the actual mod's job for him or
>her. So
> it couldn't have been there.
>
> sorry to vent. But that stuff just gets to me, sometimes. Any ideas
>about
> this unwelcome collapse/expand thing?
>
> thanks.
>
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