3/16/02
Volume 1 Issue 2

Sorting by Column Heading:
Many programs display items in columns. E-mail has headings such as 'Received' (date the e-mail was received by your server), 'From' (The address or display name of the sender), 'Subject' (some indication of the contents of the e-mail). Clicking on a heading will sort the entire list by that heading. Clicking again will reverse the order. There may be a little triangle which will indicate ascending or descending order. This becomes handy for locating a particular e-mail when all you can remember is the approximate date it came in or who sent it or what it was about.

'Re: before the subject means that the message is a Reply to a previous message, When you sort by subject the 'Re': is ignored. Therefore if there are multiple replies that have come to you regarding the same original e-mail, they will all be sorted together. Similarly 'FW:' prior to the subject indicates the message has been forwarded.

When you open a Folder using Explorer or through 'My Computer' you can select 'View' --> 'Detail'. This will display the contents in columns, which can be used for sorting. by Name, Type, Size or date Modified. This can e very useful in locating a type or particular file in a large Directory/Folder. Try all the different views to see which makes the most sense for you.

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Bonus Tip: Netiquette
When you forward or reply to an e-mail it can be fully edited. Take the time to clean out extra header info, or anything else that is not really necessary to be forwarded. The effort is appreciated and the e-mail is more likely to be read.