File - open: documents no longer listed alphabetically

[DNRC]

I've used MS Word for many years, and have never had this problem until
today. When I click on "file" - "open", instead of seeing a list of all my
documents in alphabetical order (including subdirectories), I see a
jumbled-up mess of titles in no order. How can I fix this so documents are
again presented alphabetically? Thanks.

 

[Rae Drysdale]

In the Open dialog box click on the word Name (with a triangle beside it) at
the top of the list to sort into alphabetical order again.

 

[DNRC]

Thanks for trying to help. Unfortunately, when the Open dialog box opens in
my copy of Word (MS Office Pro 2003, SP2), there is no word "Name" anywhere

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Rae is describing what you would see in Details view. You're
probably in List view or Icons view, so you can right-click on a
blank part of the file name display area, and left-click on
Arrange Icons By | Name.

 

[DNRC]

"Never mind. . ." ;-) I stumbled on the solution: when I accidentally
right-clicked the open dialog box, one of the choices that popped up was
"arrange icons by name." Did so, and everything is alphabetical again.