Yes that works good for even in Excel spreadsheets especially if you need to
save the sheets in order of calendar month. I always have to put a, 01
January, 02 February and so on so that in the folder it lists it in order.
Patricia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell J. Thomas, Jr" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] MAINTAINING THE ORDER OF MULTIPLE FILES ON
ADISK
This approach will also work in keeping multiple documents in date order
in
a folder.
If you use the format 2009 10 27 at the beginning of the file name the
documents will be in date order. Remember to make this work the month
must
be two digits; in other words February is not 2, it is 02.
Respectfully,
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Justice
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:57 PM
To: blind computing
Subject: [Blind-Computing] MAINTAINING THE ORDER OF MULTIPLE FILES ON A
DISK
I'm not sure how many of you will find this helpful but it took me so long
to sort it out, I decided to share my experience in hopes that I can save
someone else the grief.
here's the scenario.
You have a CD you are creating and you want to keep the files in order.
In
my case, they were chapters in a book I had written. I tried everything
but
for some odd reason, the files would be loaded in some kind of random
order.
I tried labeling them with numbers having multiple digits such as:
chapter
001.mp3
No, that didn't work and Chapter 17 ended up right after Chapter 1 and
Chapter 2 ended somewhere in the pack.
Then I remembered the way that Freedom Scientific labels their files on a
training disk. The numbers have to be first and they must be absolutely
precise.
That's the only way. here's an example of how I finally labeled those
chapters and they stayed in the correct order.
1.1 CHAPTER 1.MP3
1.2 CHAPTER 2.MP3
1.3 CHAPTER 3.MP3
Apparently, when you use the List command available from the View menu,
the
files appear in order but they don't stay that way unless the decimal
system
is used. if you have several books on the same disk, either divide them
into folders or use a progressive system.
My book has four parts so I used 1.xx for the first section, 2.xx for the
next and so on.
For some brainyacs like Rick and David, this may be second nature. But
for
someone like me who is more of a writer than a computer person, I was so
relieved when my method finally succeeded. My thanks to the people at
Freedom Scientific for giving me the idea.
it was David who introduced me to the View menu and told me how to list
files in any folder.
While in the folder but without an open file, press Alt V for the View
menu.
Then, to arrange the files in a list, press the L key and the list will be
displayed.
John and Linda Justice with guide dogs Jake and Zachary
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