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Items.Sort Method

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Outlook Developer Reference

Sorts the collection of items by the specified property. The index for the collection is reset to 1 upon completion of this method.

Syntax

expression.Sort(Property, Descending)

expression   A variable that represents an Items object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
Property Required String The name of the property by which to sort, which may be enclosed in brackets, for example, "[CompanyName]". User-defined properties that contain spaces must be enclosed in brackets. May not be a user-defined property of type keywords, and may not be a multi-valued property, such as a category. For user-defined properties, the property must exist in the UserDefinedProperties collection for Items.Parent, which represents the Folder object that contains the items.
Descending Optional Variant True to sort in descending order. The default value is False (ascending).

Remarks

Sort only affects the order of items in a collection. It does not affect the order of items in an explorer view.

Sort cannot be used and will cause an error if the

property

paramater is one of the following properties:

Categories LastFirstSpaceOnly
Children LastFirstSpaceOnlyCompany
Class MemberCount
CompanyLastFirstNoSpace NetMeetingAlias
CompanyLastFirstSpaceOnly RecurrenceState
DLName ResponseState
LastFirstAndSuffix Saved
LastFirstNoSpace Sent
LastFirstNoSpaceCompany

Example

The following Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) example uses the Sort method to sort the Items collection for the default Tasks folder by the "DueDate" property and displays the due dates each in turn.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub SortByDueDate()
    Dim myNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
    Dim myFolder As Outlook.Folder
    Dim myItem As Outlook.TaskItem
    Dim myItems As Outlook.Items

Set myNameSpace = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set myFolder = myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderTasks)
Set myItems = myFolder.Items
myItems.<strong>Sort</strong> "[DueDate]", False
For Each myItem In myItems
    MsgBox myItem.Subject &amp; "-- " &amp; myItem.DueDate
Next myItem



End Sub

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