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From: tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Alphabetic listing of icons?  Also, clean up without overlap.
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Date: 15 Jan 91 14:15:13 GMT
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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.

A shortcut:  You can do the dragging part in one step.  Instead of dragging
them all to the desktop, then back, just drag them to the grayed-out icon
of the folder they're ALREADY in.  (That icon is in the parent folder's
window, of course.)

  -- Tony

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