Sorting Outlook emails

[StephenUK]

Ashwken, that is just what I wanted to know and very helpful, and Kinook, thank you too.

That gives me 90% of what I want, since I can sort in the child pane on any field I want.

Is there any way,however, to have the explorer pane reflect the sort order in the child pane? That way I can close down the child pane.