Sub-collection in Bridge CS5

Is there anyway to create a sub-collection in Bridge?  After searching it appears that you can do it in Lightroom, but I need Bridge
thanks

Have never done a collection, much less a collection of a collection.  So when you try it in Bridge what happens?

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    1. PECourtejoie,  
      28 mars 2012 05:41    in reply to TomEP 
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    Hello! It would be nice to have a migration script in Bridge too...
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    Have the same problem every upgrade. Having to build up my Collections and Favorites from scratch.  (Keywords can be exported, so these are OK). Are there CS5 files i can copy into CS6? Gratefull for any advice. Tom

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