After watching the Administrator at work scroll painfully through 10,000 messages in his inbox trying to find one from the right sender in Outlook, it occurred to me that a lot of people don’t realize how easily you can use the keyboard to find a message in a sorted list.
Almost any list control in Windows will let you type the first couple of letters in order to focus the selection on the item that matches in the current sorted column. It’s not exactly a new technique, but judging from today’s experience I felt it was worth sharing.
For instance, in Outlook you can sort by the “From” header by clicking on it.
Almost any list control in Windows will let you type the first couple of letters in order to focus the selection on the item that matches in the current sorted column. It’s not exactly a new technique, but judging from today’s experience I felt it was worth sharing.
For instance, in Outlook you can sort by the “From” header by clicking on it.
And now you can start typing the first couple of letters of a name, for instance I wanted to find messages from Amazon.com so I typed in the first three letters quickly: a, m, a…
You’ll see that the selection went down to Amazon.com. Obviously this is a contrived example, but you can see the value in using this technique.
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