[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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