Grouping list items

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 (Windows, Linux) or disclosure triangles (Mac) 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 use view properties to choose the column at "Group items on" on the Sorting tab of the View Properties form.
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	Groups messages by message threads, rather than alphabetically by subject.

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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 button/triangle beside the group.
expand a collapsed group	Click the same button/triangle.
collapse or expand all groups	Click the grouping column heading. or Use the "Collapse all groups" field on the Sorting tab of the View Properties form.

Caution

If you collapse a group of items, then move or delete the displayed top item in the group, all items in the group are moved or deleted.

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Ungrouping items

To remove grouping, Control-click or Option-click the grouping column heading.
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