[this was first posted in our Newsletter by Jay]

I need a tip on how to get my email dates in my inbox back in sequence
starting from the oldest date at the top of my inbox and going down to the
most recent email date.  Somehow several of my email dates jumped out of sequence and they wound
up between back emails and the most current ones in my inbox.

    If you look at the top of the inbox box, you will see column headings, such as, From, Subject, and Received.  One of them may have a triangle pointing up or down.  The triangle means that your emails are sorted according to that column in the direction of the triangle (which is actually an arrow).  So if the triangle is next to From and is pointing down, your emails are arranged in alphabetical order according to the From email address.

    You want the triangle in the Received column pointing up.  This will arrange your emails according to the date that they were received with the newest at the bottom (to have the newest at the top, the triangle should be pointing down).

    All you need to do is click on the word and heading, Received, in the Received column and the emails will be sorted according to date.  To sort them the opposite way (so that the triangle points the other way), just click on it again.

    What probably happened is that you accidently clicked on one of the other column headings and so the emails were and are sorted according to it.