OmniOutliner-Users digest, Vol 1 #206 - 13 msgs

[Quentin Stafford-Fraser]

On onsdag, jan 8, 2003, at 21:01 Europe/Copenhagen, 
omnioutliner-users-request at omnigroup.com wrote:

> One feature I very much like in Excel is the 'auto-filter': you get a
> menu at the top of a column that has one item for each unique entry
> in the column. When you choose an item, the spreadsheet is filtered
> on the chosen item, so that only rows containing that item in that
> column are displayed (there is, of course, a 'Show-all' item to
> return to the full view). Another very good implementation of the
> same idea can be found in Palm Desktop.
>

Yes, I like this idea too, or a text-search box which filters in the 
same way that Mail filters messages.  But let's not forget that OO is 
an outliner.  How would you represent the hierarchical structure if you 
used this on a regular outline?

Quentin
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Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser
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