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Sorting Help for Files and Folders

In Windows, files and folders named with special characters get sorted first, then numbers, then alphabetic characters. Since files and folders sort special characters first, putting an exclamation mark in front of a frequently used folder name will cause it to be sorted at the top of the list. File names with leading numbers of 1 thru 9 sort fine, but when you add a file name with a 10, it will appear between 1 and 2. To solve that problem, use 01 thru 09 instead and then 10 will sort after 09.

-By Lisa Miller, Human Resources Information Systems, Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH)

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