Hi Judy, ha ... sleep reading: I'm probably an expert with this myself. LOL Thanks for working through that thread. It's quite clear now how it's done. I had actually done this earlier, but had forgotten in particular how to securely identify the message to which a posting was a reply. Especially those threads with several replies to the first & original query. Collapsed view is nice when there's some structure in it, but less helpful with lots of unrelated stuff. And all this without an UNDO function ... brrrrrr. Tilman -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Judy Florian An: boards-admins@rootsweb.com Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Dezember 2006 03:05 Betreff: Re: [BAd] Problem with taking apart a thread Sorry about the URL; I must have been sleep-reading LOL Ok this thread is fairly easy. Wait till there are 25 or 50 posts and the indentations keep changing and nothing makes any sense, even with good subject lines. LOL Here is the thread again Austrian Geneology View replies Suhm & Reitzig : -- 24 Mar 2001 Re: Suhm & Reitzig : -- 22 Jan 2002 Re: Suhm & Reitzig : -- 5 Sep 2006 Ancesters : -- 1 Apr 2001 Casper & Maria Augustin : -- 31 May 2001 Re: Austrian Geneology : -- 28 Nov 2001 Re: Austrian Geneology First: Move Casper & Maria Augustin : -- 31 May 2001 Second: Move Ancesters : -- 1 Apr 2001 Third: Move the FIRST Suhm & Reitzig : -- 24 Mar 2001 -- you might slightly freak and need to check both threads. It should have moved all 3 these--Suhm & Reitzig : -- 24 Mar 2001 Re: Suhm & Reitzig : -- 22 Jan 2002 Re: Suhm & Reitzig : -- 5 Sep 2006 Then you should have these in a thread: Austrian Geneology Re: Austrian Geneology : -- 28 Nov 2001 Re: Austrian Geneology Voila! Judy On 12/5/06, Tilman Brandl <arbit@gmx.at> wrote: > > Hi Judy, > > thanks for your time and elaborate explanations. If you're telling me to > be careful with cutting threads, you've got my full attention. Being careful > was my reason for posting this question ... ;-) > > > Maybe if you tell me the URL for the thread, ... < > > This was in my last message: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EkC.2ACE/510 >