Task list sorting?

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I have entered a DUE DATE for several tasks. List sorts by this just fine.
If I enter a new task with a due date - in the past - seems like it should
sort to the top - but no - it sorts to just AFTER any others with dates.
How do I get a true sort by any due date?

Thx.

JDS
 
As a very general answer: click the column header to sort.

I have no idea what you are looking at by the way. Which version? Which
folder? Which view?

I hope this helps you at least a little bit!

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook

read my articles here: www.judygleeson.com
www.acorntraining.com.au
Canberra, Australia

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
 
Sorry I forgot my details!

Outlook 2003.

Looking at the Calendar view - with task list on the right side.

I have 3 tasks with 4/25 due date. They sort to top - clicking on the due
date header.

I want to add a past due task with date of 4/23. There is the problem - it
does NOT sort to top! It sits in the 4th position - below the 3 4/25 dates.

Hope that draws a clearer picture.

JDS
 
What you are describing is the TaskPad - that's what it says on the heading
in 2003.

Try customising it and setting your preferred grouping and sorting this way:

right click the column header (the grey bar where it says Subject or Due
date etc)
Customise Current View
Set the Group by.. choices
Set the Fields ....choices.

I hope this helps you at least a little bit!

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook

read my articles here: www.judygleeson.com
www.acorntraining.com.au
Canberra, Australia

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
 
That doesn't get it either - anytime I add a date - in the past - it does
not go to the top! Grouped or not makes no dif. The group dated 4/30 sorts
to the top with balance of tasks assigned no due date. I then select 1 task
and enter the date 4/24 - and it moves to the middle of 4/30 and no date
group!

Other thoughts? Seems like a bug here.
 
try a command line switch to reset the TaskPad?

I hope this helps you at least a little bit!

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook

read my articles here: www.judygleeson.com
www.acorntraining.com.au
Canberra, Australia

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
 
sure how do i do that?

Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook) said:
try a command line switch to reset the TaskPad?

I hope this helps you at least a little bit!

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook

read my articles here: www.judygleeson.com
www.acorntraining.com.au
Canberra, Australia

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
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no prob! i appreciate the help!

trying to follow syntax from that url i've typed:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /resettasks"

but i get an error advising "cannot start outlook"

that path is coped from the shortcut that actually starts outlook.

??
 
MCHSI said:
trying to follow syntax from that url i've typed:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /resettasks"

but i get an error advising "cannot start outlook"
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Outlook 2003 doesn't have a /resettasks command switch and, for the life of
me, I can't see one on the web page Judy cited, so I'm unsure why you tried
to use it.
 
Because she knows a lot more about Outlook than I do and she suggested it.

Do you have any solutions to the problem?

Outlook 2003
Looking at the Calendar view - with task list on the right side.
I have 3 tasks with 4/25 due date. They sort to top - clicking on the due
date header.
I want to add a past due task with date of 4/23. There is the problem - it
does NOT sort to top! It sits in the 4th position - below the 3 4/25 dates.

JDS
 
MCHSI said:
Because she knows a lot more about Outlook than I do and she
suggested it.
Click to expand...

What she said was "try a command line switch to reset the TaskPad". She
didn't mention "/resettask". While I can't find any such switch (other than
the more general "/cleanviews"), as you say, Judy knows a lot.
Outlook 2003
Looking at the Calendar view - with task list on the right side.
I have 3 tasks with 4/25 due date. They sort to top - clicking on
the due date header.
I want to add a past due task with date of 4/23. There is the
problem - it does NOT sort to top! It sits in the 4th position -
below the 3 4/25 dates.
Click to expand...

When I add the Due Date field to the TaskPad header line and then add a task
whose Due Dat is earlier than any I have already displaying, then click the
Due Date header twice to sort in the opposite direction, then in the
original direction, the tasks appear sorted correctly to me.
 
Any others idea why its not sorting correctly.


Brian Tillman said:
What she said was "try a command line switch to reset the TaskPad". She
didn't mention "/resettask". While I can't find any such switch (other
than the more general "/cleanviews"), as you say, Judy knows a lot.


When I add the Due Date field to the TaskPad header line and then add a
task whose Due Dat is earlier than any I have already displaying, then
click the Due Date header twice to sort in the opposite direction, then in
the original direction, the tasks appear sorted correctly to me.
Click to expand...
 
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