Folders out of order - Office 2003

[jafoxy]

Can someone please help me? I have a user who is highly skilled with Office
who is having a problem with her folders in My Documents. She doesn't fool
around with settings she doesn't understand.

This problem only started about a week ago, everything was fine before that.
If she tries to Open or Save a file from within any Office 2003 product, her
files and folders do not show up in alphabetical order. If she tries to Open
or Save a file in a non Office product, her files and folders are in
alphabetical order. They are also in alphabetical order when she uses My
Computer, My Documents or Windows Explorer.

How do we fix this problem as she is finding it very difficult to find her
files and as she is a PA to our Head of Centre, is busy enough without having
to continuously search for her files.

Please help!!!

JAFoxy

 

[Bob I]

Set the file order in Explorer.

 

[jafoxy]

How?

Set the file order in Explorer.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Right click and sort by name

 

[Bob I]

Oops, overkill. Just click on "Name", above the file listing in Open or
Save As.

 

[Michael Bednarek]

Where do I find "Name" above the file listing in Open or Save As?
I don't see it anywhere in either window.

[snip]

Select "Views: Details" (2nd right-most icon at the top) or Right-Click
anywhere in the file list. The latter also provides "Arrange Icons By"
to sort them; selecting the same sort criterium again reverses the sort.

 

[Bob I]

Just left of Tools, pick View, Details.

Where do I find "Name" above the file listing in Open or Save As?
I don't see it anywhere in either window.
J

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[jafoxy]

Thanks for your help so far, and the help of everyone else, but so far none
of it has worked. We had already tried Tools, View, Details at the beginning
with no success. The problem does not exist in Explorer and trying to fix it
there has no effect on Open or Save As in the Office Applications.

Any other suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,

JAFoxy

 

[Michael Bednarek]

Thanks for your help so far, and the help of everyone else, but so far none
of it has worked. We had already tried Tools, View, Details at the beginning
with no success.

I don't follow - in Office 2003's Save As or Open dialogues, Tools does not
have a View/Details option.

The problem does not exist in Explorer and trying to fix it
there has no effect on Open or Save As in the Office Applications.

Any other suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:13:47 +1000, I suggested this:
[In the Save As dialogue,]
Select "Views: Details" (2nd right-most icon at the top) or Right-Click
anywhere in the file list. The latter also provides "Arrange Icons By"
to sort them; selecting the same sort criterium again reverses the sort.

Once "Views: Details" has been selected, the left-most column has a header
"Name"; single left clicking this header will sort the list by names,
clicking it again will reverse the sort; the sort direction will be
indicated by a triangle to the right of the word "Name".

I'd be most interested how this procedure fails in your environment.

 

[Bob I]

You need to click the Icon, second Item from right side. That is "Views".

Thanks for your help so far, and the help of everyone else, but so far none
of it has worked. We had already tried Tools, View, Details at the beginning
with no success.

I don't follow - in Office 2003's Save As or Open dialogues, Tools does not
have a View/Details option.

The problem does not exist in Explorer and trying to fix it
there has no effect on Open or Save As in the Office Applications.

Any other suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:13:47 +1000, I suggested this:
[In the Save As dialogue,]
Select "Views: Details" (2nd right-most icon at the top) or Right-Click
anywhere in the file list. The latter also provides "Arrange Icons By"
to sort them; selecting the same sort criterium again reverses the sort.

Once "Views: Details" has been selected, the left-most column has a header
"Name"; single left clicking this header will sort the list by names,
clicking it again will reverse the sort; the sort direction will be
indicated by a triangle to the right of the word "Name".

I'd be most interested how this procedure fails in your environment.

 

[danny]

I am having the same problem. Right clicking and selecting arrange
icons by name does not work. they still stay in z to a order.

 

[Derek Timothy]

I had this problem too recently.

You need to close your office apps and open up windows explorer. Sort the
folders and files view alphabetically inside windows explorer and Make sure
you are happy with it. Then do Tools...Folder Options...View and Set All
Folders To "Like Current Folder" In this way you set the alphabetical
listing to be applied to all your folders.

Re-open your office app and the docs and folders should be sorted OK.

Derek