Quick way to reorder attachments
October 10 2006 04:28:56 PM
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I often drag multiple attachments from my file system into Lotus Notes documents. Once the attachments are in the document, you unfortunately can't move them around via drag and drop. You could cut and paste them, but if the attachments are large, this can take a while. Instead when I want to reorder the attachments what I do is take advantage of the Lotus Notes feature that allows you to Re-arrange values in a list or cells in a table.
Here is an example.
#1 Turn the line they are on into a bulleted list. (using the Toolbar Icon
, the Text menu, keyboard shortcut ALT+T+L+L, or right click menu)
#2 Move each attachment to its own bullet by placing a line break (return/enter key) between attachments 1 and 2, and 2 and 3.
#3 Use the arrow keys (as described here) to rearrange the attachments.
#4 Reverse steps #2 and #1. Meaning, delete the line break, and then remove the bullet list formatting. Now the attachments are in the order that you want.
After doing this a few times you'll find it to be a simple process.
Here is an example.
#1 Turn the line they are on into a bulleted list. (using the Toolbar Icon
#2 Move each attachment to its own bullet by placing a line break (return/enter key) between attachments 1 and 2, and 2 and 3.
#3 Use the arrow keys (as described here) to rearrange the attachments.
#4 Reverse steps #2 and #1. Meaning, delete the line break, and then remove the bullet list formatting. Now the attachments are in the order that you want.
After doing this a few times you'll find it to be a simple process.
