Re: FW: Re: AW:

Tom, and Vern, thanks to both of you!

Now, with Tom's explanation I fullly understood what Vern tried to explain and I had answered did not work same for me!
By the way, if I remember it ok, <Shift-8> is where the asterisk is found in the american keyboard layout, isn't it?
I was trying it in my keyboard... but did not work either! The problem comes since Shift-8 is my left parenthesys "("...
Quite funny.
In addition, pressing my asterisk with the mail list already expanded... obviously did nothing.
Now, collapsing the threads with backslash "\" does it, and keying the the asterisk "*" expands all the threads.
So, everything now seems to work as expected.

Thank you both, guys! This forum is great!
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Tom Liotta escribió:

Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti wrote:

Vern Hamberg escribió:

The asterisk (star) opens each thread for me. When I first get mail, the threads have the plus sign in front of them - I can open each one by clicking on the plus sign, or I can open them all by pressing the asterisk key. Does that work that same on your keyboard?

No, that didn't work for me.
In adition, after your message, I've looked into Thunderbird's online help and forums about the "star" column.
The only useful thing I found is I can "star/unstar" a line with the mouse in that column... but if the thread lines are in "compressed" (i.e. NOT expanded) format, then only the first one gets starred...
Then I can sort on the star column, which brings the starred ones on top.
But then, pressing the asterisk does nothing.

Antonio:

Assuming the Thunderbird client --

When the list is displayed in threaded mode, press <Shift-8> for the asterisk (*) key. It has nothing to do with the 'Star' column heading. It's simply an unfortunate coincidence that the 'Star' column may be confused with the asterisk (star?) key.

Pressing asterisk should expand all threads. Pressing the back-slash (\) key should collapse all threads.

Clicking the 'Date' column heading should sort all mail items in date/time sequence. Clicking the 'Date' column heading multiple times should toggle the order between ascending and descending.

Clicking other column headings will sort the list by other columns. On the far right, there's a column heading symbol that will let you choose which headings should be in your list. I often include the 'Order received' column just to check differences between date/time and when I actually received the mail item.

Tom Liotta