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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
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Subject: Re: Alphabetic listing of icons?  Also, clean up without overlap.
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Date: 15 Jan 91 03:52:01 GMT
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In article <42533@ut-emx.uucp> clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) writes:
>In article <687@mephisto.edu> ashwin@cc.gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
>>Is there any way to re-order the icons in a folder so that they appear
>>alphabetically?  I want to display the icons in the "Show by icon" or "Show
>>by small icon" format but I want them to be listed (and maintained)
>>alphabetically.
>>
>To do this, select all the icons, change to View by Name, drag them all
>onto the desktop, immediately drag them back to the window (easy if you 
>don't accidentally de-select them!), and change to View by [Small] Icon.
>They will be arranged left to right, top to bottom, in alpha order.
>
>>Also, is there a way to get "Clean up window" to move icons (or small icons)
>>into appropriate array positions such that they do not obscure or overlap one
>>another?  E.g., if an icon has a long name attached to it, the next array
>>position over to the right might be left empty (or whatever); otherwise it
>>would be the same arrangement as "Clean up window" normally creates.
>>

  Or you can wait for System 7, in which case the Finder does both of these
things.  (Yes, I know I'm probably opening up a whole can of worms by saying
this...)