Re: List rearrangment

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From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:11:34 -0500

The correct spelling of "incopetent" is "incompetent", so I
guess you have a slight advantage in that area. 

-- 
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
 news:28ca01c47061$2f9cf290$a501280a@phx.gbl...
| Thank you for your reply.
| Do you have a way to forward this deficiency in XP to 
| Microsoft so that the next version of Windows will have 
| the feature I mentioned in Windows 98?  It amazes me when 
| a common feature in a previous version of Windows is left 
| out of a newer version.  How much are they paying these 
| incopetent people? 
| Thanks again!
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Gretta wrote:
| >> recently upgraded from Windows 98 to XP Home.
| >> I was able to open a file folder and rearrange file 
| items
| >> in the list view (menu choice between edit and 
| favorites)
| >> and list (menu choice between icons and details).  For
| >> example I could select a file or files in the list, 
| drag
| >> and drop them beside the list in the open file folder
| >> window.  I could then open a space in the original list
| >> by again selecting files, dragging and dropping them, 
| and
| >> then selecting the files I had previously moved to the
| >> open space in the folder window by the original list 
| into
| >> the open space I had just made in the original list.
| >> I learned through trial and error that if I gave each
| >> list item a number or alphabetical letter I can change
| >> their order.  This is fine for short lists, but a BIG
| >> hassle with lists of 100 items.
| >> I also tried first arranging the list using the view,
| >> icons menu setting.  This again is okay for short lists
| >> but wholly impractical for any list of twenty or more
| >> items.  And even then their order goes back to what 
| they
| >> were when I go back to view, list menu choice.
| >> If it helps to understand the rearranging problem, it 
| is
| >> my lists of mp3 files that this is my main problem.  I
| >> also often need to rearrange my document files so that
| >> those I most often use will be at the top of the list.
| >> I hope my detailed description of the problem hasn't
| >> turned you off.
| >> If you don't have an answer, what other Microsoft
| >> newwsgroup category would you reccomend I try?
| >> I love you guys!
| >> I.
| >
| >Gretta
| >
| >Probably not the answer you want to hear, but I think 
| you simply need to get
| >organized. I learned a long time ago that trying to work 
| with hundreds of
| >files, in one folder just does not work.
| >
| >I ended up simply creating many sub-folders, with 
| descriptive names, and
| >organizing the files into these folders. I ended up with 
| a small group of
| >folders and it was easy to then organize the files in 
| those folders and easy
| >to quickly find exactly what I was looking for. Saved my 
| sanity. :)
| >
| >For my MP3 files, I separate them by music type, group, 
| artist, etc.
| >
| >-- 
| >Ronnie Vernon
| >Microsoft MVP
| >Windows Shell/User
| >
| >Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
| >http://www.dts-l.org
| >http://www.mvps.org
| >
| >
| >.
| >

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