Re: Offline contacts in favourites category + groups

Greetings Shak,

That is rather annoying isn't it.

I think this is by design, and I can't specifically think of a way of changing the behaviour
(although someone might be able to patch it).

However, you can hide the Favorites category. Just right-click the Favorites category
itself, choose Change favorites layout and then when the Options dialog appears, uncheck
'Show favorites' at the very top.

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"Shak" <> wrote in message news:a8Plm.6974$2...
> I'm guessing this is a known problem so was looking for a workaround more than anything
> else. Is there any reason why offline contacts aren't hidden in the favorites category? It
> seems to defeat the purpose having the rest of your list pushed out by contacts who aren't
> online. I'd love them to be alphabetically arranged too.
>
> At the moment I've just created my own "favorites" category and pushed contacts into that.
> Is there any way to hide or delete the real favorites (now empty)?
>
> Also, how do I delete empty groups? WLM insists I have to make someone else the owner
> before I can leave it. Is there any way of hiding the category altogether?
>
> TIA
>
> Shak