Grouping items in lists
You can group all items by a column, such as Name or Subject. This puts the items with the same name or subject together. For example, this is a Mailbox grouped by subject:
A grouping column is displayed to the left of the Subject column in this example. The grouping column shows tree view buttons beside grouped items.
To group items for a particular column, Control-click (Windows, Linux) or Option-click (Mac) the appropriate column heading.
Another way to specify which column to group on is to choose the column at "Group items on" in the pane's view properties.
There are two grouping rules to note:
If you |
FirstClass does this |
use both sorting and grouping |
Keeps groups together and sorts the list as a whole by the first item in each group. Items are also sorted within each group. |
group the Subject column |
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Collapsing and expanding groups
To |
Do this |
collapse a group so that you only see the first item in the group |
Click the group button beside the group. |
expand a collapsed group |
Click the same button. |
collapse or expand all groups |
Click the grouping column heading. or Use the view property "Collapse all groups". |
Ungrouping items
To remove grouping, Control-click or Option-click the grouping column heading.
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