Mike, i don't really understand what you try to tell me. I am not talking about the columns in "mail" , I am talking about a file in my documents. Say a bunch of articles I saved; no matter when I put them into the list, they appear in alphabetical order. Now if I want to see the last five entries I made according to the dates I filed them, I have to go through the whole list and click on the item to see when it was filed or modified. I know I could put a number there or make an indent,to put the latest entry on top, but that does not help me in the long run. I am just curious if that would be possible. This group knows so many things i am not aware of, it always is worth a try. Marta On Aug 21, 2005, at 23:43, Mike Watkins wrote:
> Marta, > Under any set of files (or sub-files), there are headings at the tops > of the columns, designating such things as Subject or Date Received > (or Date Modified). If you click on the Date column, it lists > according to the chronological order in which received or modified. If > you click on Name or on Subject, it will list those alphabetically. > Each individual file, say, in Documents (such as e-mails from a > certain individual), uses the same method to get the columns to behave > this same way. There is also an small arrow at the far right of the > Subject/ Date line. Clicking on this will reverse the order so that > the last is first, as best I can explain that. Try it and see what > happens. > Mike > > > On Aug 21, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> Is there a way to change the entries of files - say- in documents- >> where all my saved items are filed according to the alphabet , to >> have them show up according to the date on which they were saved? I >> sometimes would prefer the list showing the latest entries on top, so >> they would not get lost between entries from , say , a couple of >> years ago? I have never inquired whether there might be preferences >> as to how files could be stored. >> Marta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2074 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050822/dc490ced/attachment.bin
