Office 2003 Open/Save As Window Details View

[razman10]

In MS Office (whether it's Access, Excel, PowerPoint...) when opening or saving a file (using the Save As feature) we can sort by date modified if using the "Details" view. In Office 2003, this is still the case, however now there are groupings (Today, This Week, Last Week, Last Month, etc.)

These groupings now sort alphabetically within the time period (i.e. all files under the grouping "Last Month" are sorted A-Z within this group, while the dates are all over the place).

Now my question... How can I sort by date within these groupings?

 

[TonyJollans]

I can't duplicate this behaviour at all - and I can only get the groupings at all when running under Vista. Can you give some more details of how you set it up?

Enjoy,
Tony

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[razman10]

See screen shot below...

You see that I have clicked on "Date Modified" to sort by date. You see the groupings "Today", "Last Week", "Two Months Ago", etc. in the name section. Look in the "Earlier This Year" section... you see the dates are not in order, as I believe they should be when sorting by Date Modified. Instead they have been grouped together and soreted alphabetically.

Any thoughts?

 

[TonyJollans]

===> Any thoughts?

It's a bug in XP? There is no arrowhead beside Date Modified indicating that it is ordered on that column and I see the same problem in Windows Explorer outside Word.

Seems to work correctly in Vista.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[ThePumpkin]

Hi

There is a setting that will fix this...they've just hidden it in a funny place.

Right click within the section where it lists the files. Click on Arrange Icons By, then untick Show in Groups. This should put in back in normal order.

Cheers
Karen

 

[razman10]

Woo Hoo!!!!

That did it Karen. Thank you very much!!!

Happy Halloween everyone!

 

[TonyJollans]

A-ha! I misunderstood. I didn't realise you just wanted rid of the groups - I thought you wanted the files sorted by date *within* the groups.


Enjoy,
Tony

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[razman10]

Tony,

Either way would work for me. I just wanted to find a file I created in September of 2005. In my folder, it grouped all of the files created "Last Year" (hundreds!) alphabetically and made it impossible to find the file (I forgot what I named it). This solution takes care of the problem. It's nice to have the groupings, but I don't need them (especially if they don't work correctly).

Thanks for your help.