Why do newsgroup folders stay bold when entirely read?

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Bill Weylock

I¹ve gone through m.p.m.office.word several times and am sure there are no
unread messages. That includes using the Unread mail view and sorting by
message status.

Yet the name of the group remains bolded in my list of folders.

In the past, that has also happened with this newsgroup, but it is so much
more active that it doesn¹t matter to me. Messages arrive every minute or
two from what I can tell.

Thoughts? Help?

TIA


Best,


- Bill
 
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Walt Basil

I¹ve gone through m.p.m.office.word several times and am sure there are no
unread messages. That includes using the Unread mail view and sorting by
message status.

Yet the name of the group remains bolded in my list of folders.

In the past, that has also happened with this newsgroup, but it is so much
more active that it doesn¹t matter to me. Messages arrive every minute or
two from what I can tell.

Thoughts? Help?
Click to expand...

I have had the same experience.

When I mark all as read, then leave that group and go to another, and return
back to the original, sometimes it will be bold as if there are more unread,
but there are none. So I click the download more button, and more will
download, but they will be up to a couple months old.

It's just something I ignore.

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Paul Berkowitz

I¹ve gone through m.p.m.office.word several times and am sure there are no
unread messages. That includes using the Unread mail view and sorting by
message status.

Yet the name of the group remains bolded in my list of folders.

In the past, that has also happened with this newsgroup, but it is so much
more active that it doesn¹t matter to me. Messages arrive every minute or two
from what I can tell.
Click to expand...

No help available. It's something in the Microsoft News Server that does
this - to all or most news clients. If your ISP also carries some Microsoft
newsgroups, you'll see it doesn't happen there - although it may take hours
for messages to to arrive there, so it's hardly worth it. Just keep setting
all to Read when you finish reading all unread messages. I have to do this
many times per day.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
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Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
B

Bill Weylock

Thanks! (wait... Let me move this window over so I can read what I¹m
writing... There.) :)

Thanks to you and Walt for letting me know that I have not lost my mind, or
that at least this is not a symptom.

What¹s the fastest and easiest way to mark all read? View Unread and Select
All?

Sometimes when I do that, the Bold goes away. Often it doesn¹t. Sigh.


Best,


- Bill
 
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Dave Cortright

I¹ve solved this by creating a custom view for my newsgroups (to do so, you
have to trick Entourage by doing a Find in the newsgroup and then saving as
a custom view). Custom view are never bold. The down-side is there¹s a bug
in the new 3 column view for newsgroup custom views that shows the To
address rather than the From in the cell.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Thanks! (wait... Let me move this window over so I can read what I¹m
writing... There.) :)

Thanks to you and Walt for letting me know that I have not lost my mind, or
that at least this is not a symptom.

What¹s the fastest and easiest way to mark all read? View Unread and Select
All?

Sometimes when I do that, the Bold goes away. Often it doesn¹t. Sigh.
Click to expand...

No. Just press command-option-T.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
B

Bill Weylock

Oops. I never noticed that. Kind of embarrassing. But thanks for waking me
up.
 
B

Bill Weylock

Thought I would add that I just tried it, and it works so fast and simply I
laughed out loud. Thanks again.
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

It works so well that I'm annoyed I can't delete all from my Junk folder in
a similar way without wading in to select one, before I can cmd-A, delete.
Being able to affect all the messages like this without even having to
select one of them (selecting the NG or folder is enough) means you can zip
up and down the list of all NGs after you've read them., just using an arrow
key and that combo, and take care of all of them in 10 seconds or so.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice


From: Bill Weylock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:31:36 -0700
Subject: Re: Why do newsgroup folders stay bold when entirely read?

Thought I would add that I just tried it, and it works so fast and simply I
laughed out loud. Thanks again.
 
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Mickey Stevens

No. Just press command-option-T.
Click to expand...

There is also a button on the toolbar that does the same thing. The icon is
a newspaper with three green checkmarks. On my machine it also says "Mark
All Read" right next to it.
 
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Bill Weylock

Thanks.

I do have the button, but I¹m a keyboard/menu guy. I don¹t pay much
attention to buttons for some reason.
 
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