Group Your Files

KlickKatt · May 7, 2010

[size="-1"]I ran across this Hint in a newsletter - and I think it's pretty cool!!

Arrange Your Files In Groups[/size][size="-1"]

When you view files in Windows Explorer or My Computer, they are usually arranged in alphabetical order. You probably also know that in Detail view (View,Detail) you can click the column headings (i.e. Type, Size, Date, etc...) to sort your files by that column. Clicking the column heading a second time will sort the files in reverse order.

What you many not know is that you can also arrange the files into groups. How they are grouped depends on what sort order you last used. The default order is filenames grouped by letter. All filenames starting with A are grouped, filenames starting with B are grouped, etc..[/size][size="-1"].[/size]
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To arrange files into groups, right click any empty space on the window's contents pane, click Arrange Icons By and click Show in Groups. To change the way the files are grouped, either click a column heading or right-click again in any empty space on the window's contents pane, click Arrange Icons By and choose Name,Size,Type, orModified or other available option.

Note that grouping affects only that specific folder. This is a good thing because there may be some folders where you want files grouped by age, others grouped by filesize, etc... To remove grouping from a folder, right-click [/size][size="-1"]an empty space on the window's contents pane and remove the checkmark form the [/size][size="-1"]Arrange Icons By[/size][size="-1"] option.
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Interesting:

Copying this from a email and pasting it, didn't work - no picture.

But .... Highlighting and dragging into the Post Creation page - DID!

I wonder what the difference is ?????

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BeeCeeBee · May 7, 2010

When you highlite and drag what you are doing is dragging the entire post as it is encoded rather than just dragging an image. I am not all that sure that your having the ability to do either(Not you specifically but any of us )is a good thing. I will let Bob weigh in on this one.

Mara · May 7, 2010

Wahoo! This is something perfect for me (love things in perfect order - and no jokes about being 'bum retentive' either, please! :snckr. Thanks so much KlickKatt!! Hmmm, wonder if I can do something similar in Bookmarks using Firefox.

DSTM (Dougie) · May 7, 2010

Mara said: ↑

Wahoo! This is something perfect for me (love things in perfect order - and no jokes about being 'bum retentive' either, please! :snckr. Thanks so much KlickKatt!! Hmmm, wonder if I can do something similar in Bookmarks using Firefox.
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This may be helpful for you,Mara.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sorting_bookmarks_alphabetically

Mara · May 7, 2010

Thanks so much! Off I go to read it thoroughly and then print it off (have tried before with dismal failure but this aught to do it - thanks again!).

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