How do I sort my Favorites in MS Internet Explorer?

Hi,
Your tip to sort my IE favourites did not work for me.
Pity
Thanks for trying
Frank

Maybe you can elaborate as to how it's not working? Just saying that it didn't work for you doesn't do much for us to help you. Did you not have that option? Did you have that option, but it just didn't do anything?

I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work, that's the way it's suppose to be done.

I HAVE A LIST IN MICROSOFT WORKS IN MY COMPUTER THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ALPHABETIZE HOW DO I DO THIS?

How do I sort my Favorites in MS Internet Explorer #7?

I know how to alphabetize my Favorites...my LINKS list of Favorites is in alpha order. My problem is the DROPDOWN list of Favorites that appears when I add a new Favorite, i.e., the list that appears in the middle of the screen when I hit "Create in." I get all my folders and subfolders but in a totally random order...so I have to virtually read the name of every folder to find the one I want to add into. Know how to fix THAT in IE7? Thanks much.

How can I stop the "Add Favorites" dialog from totally expanding every favorites folder???

It takes forever to scroll down through all the ones I don't want expnd just to find the one I do.

Who's bright idea was it to change this? In IE6 and previous, you could scroll the collapsed list and then expand just where you wanted to to add the new item.

Rod

The tip about alphebetizing favorites was a gem! I have just begun building a new favorites menu after erasing them all. Your tip really did the trick. Thank you

why would anyone want their favourites in alphabetical order?....surely it adds to the searching time to go trawling through the entire list?

How do you convert your favourites back from 'sorted by name' to the order in which you saved them?

JJ - If you go to Organize Favorites dialog box, select the item and use Alt-UpArrow or Alt-DownArrow to move the selected item up or down in the list.....

Thanks JJ but that does not put the list back into chronological order. I too have a lot of items in my faves list and it would take an eternity to sort them manually one at a time like that. And that's assuming I know exactly when each one was saved, which I don’t.

Does anyone know of a way that favorites can be sorted chronologically, by the date upon which they were saved to the list?

Many thanks,

Tony

Dave,
How do I save email messages to a CD?

Thank you
Max

I have about 50 subfolders, so every time I add a favorite to a subfolder I have to resort that subfolder.
Is there any way to resort all subfolders at one time; rather than having to resort each subfolder individually>

Here is a clumsy workaround I posted on a MS workgroup today titled "Favorites Add To Menu Order". I doubt MS will ever fix this and add any more useability to XP:

While trying to thwart FAT32 IE7 Add Favorites Menu into displaying in alpha sort-order, I moved Favs folders to another partition then back again. It did re-order the Add Favs Menu to alpha except for one folder which shows at top of Menu.

DOS DIR of the copied-to partition shows dirs: [TEMP, 2-45 in alpha, SYNC, TASK, TECH]. Perhaps because of disk space contiguity ?

DOS DIR of Favs now shows [TECH, 2-45 alpha, SYNC, TASK, TEMP]. Note the 1st & last file mis-order.

Why is an XP-IE7 Menu List dependent on FAT order - or anything but alpha sort and why can't MS fix this??? It is a royal pain to manually scan thru a heirarchy of unordered folders to add Webpage shortcuts!! Can someone please present this in a place most prominently visible to MS designer/debuggers ??

hi your idea of right click on favourites and then sort by name worked for me and thanks a lot

My favorites list has been driving me crazy for some time, but not any more. Thank you!

I have the same question as TonyO. Has anyone found a way to sort them by date instead of name for IE?

Until a few days ago my favorites were sorted by date. Suddenly the were irritantly sorted alfabetically which I don't want. Does anyone know how to reverse this. I have not been able to find a solution on the internet

Sort by name is the only option that does NOT appear in the drop down menu. Any other options?

You are a god! Thanks for the tip. :)

Until a few days ago my favorites were sorted by date. Suddenly the were irritantly sorted alphabetically which I don't want. Does anyone know how to reverse this. I have not been able to find a solution on the internet. I am so used to going to certain sites in an order I already knew - but do NOT want alphabetically. thanks

It works. Thanks a lot. You have saved me a lot of angst.

Hello Dave:

I am seeking advice on how to ask a generic interview question that would test a candidate's programming aptitude. Is the following question on track or am I way off base?

'Using the data resulting from your completion of the Excel part of this test, write the code in the programming language of your choice, which would yield the average number of people with impaired hearing by city. For purposes of this test, only interested in the code that creates the dataset wanted and not all the other code that may surround it. Place comment statements (/* comment */) in your code to describe its purpose."

Thanks for any advice you're able to give me.

Fantastic...It Works... Thanks

Worked Great - Thanks for saving me HOURS!!!

I would like to know how to sort my favourites in the order that I originally bookedmarked them ie newest on the bottom oldest one on the top.

Thanks.

Jerry Steiner

Thank you! I have searched all through the help files and tried everything and decided to search for an answer online and you just made my morning. :D

Thanks for showing how to order favorites alphabetically: but how do I order them chronologically? best wishes, Ron.

Thanks for showing how to order favorites alphabetically: but how do I order them chronologically (by the date on which I created them)? Best wishes, Ron.

Thanks for showing how to order favorites alphabetically: but how do I order them chronologically (by the date on which I created them)? Best wishes, Ron.

Hi, I have the same problem accidentally chose "save by name" in Favorites and now the list is chronological. How do I change it back?
I thought of exporting the favorites list and save it somewhere, reset the IE settings, and import the list back.

Sorry I meant, I want to change it from alphabetical back to CHRONOLOGICAL!

RE: changing Favorites list from alphabetical back to chronological:
I solved it by going back to a previous restore point using System Restore. Of course...!

Thank you - your tip on sorting Favorites folders worked! I went everywhere and found lots of complicated "solutions" that felt like a snipe hunt.

Thanks so much Dave, I will be back next time I need help.

Your tip on alphabetizing favorites in IE worked like a charm. Thanks!!

Thanks, Funny how unintuitive. And here I was thinking "Oh Gee it must be under 'Organize Favorites'". Gott love MS useability.

When you want to add a favorite on the fly using the(ctrl+D) or clicking on the STAR+ icon the create in drop down list is not in name order and sorting favourites on the task bar doesn't fix this. Right clicking doesn't offer any options. Searching through the unordered drop down list to attach the new site to an exisiting unordered folder is a pain. Solution much appreciated : )

I ove your web site. I am trying to arrange my favorites alphabetcially but "sort by name" does not appear as an option when I follow your directions. I use Internet Explorer 6.0. the last three choices are "Dele, Rename & Properties". Can you help?

For the love of god, will somebody answer how do you to organise favourites chronologically!
Please???

that was brilliant from you .... wow ,,, and very very stupid from whoever thought of putting it there.

Wow!!!! It works. Thanks for the tip.

Perfect, works for me.

THANK YOU !! I had one computer where the favs were sorted and another where it was not and I could not figure out for the life of me how to do it !! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!

WOW - I've been trying for a long time to figure this out. THANK YOU SO MUCH! It worked perfectly. TY TY TY TY TY

Thanks! Worked great...just like typical MS...around the elbow to get to the thumb...MS motto should be knowlege is power!

Thank you for your website! I recently wanted to sort my unorganized favorites and found the method on your website.

Finally - i am able to sort the favorites. Who would have guessed that you have to click the favorites in the main tool bar - when i went to the favorites that pop up on the left hand side - the sort by name feature was not available

Thx for the useful soln

DID ANYONE bother to read this?

"Sort by name is the only option that does NOT appear in the drop down menu. Any other options?"
Posted by: Deb at September 9, 2008 9:20 AM

I get it, cause it is not on mine either....got an answer to that? rather than questions about something completely different?

Excellent, simple answer. I agree with you that this feature scores low on "usability"!

I want to sort my favorites but the "Sort by Name" option is not displayed in the drop down menu.

Thanks Dude!

Perfect sometimes MS is so counterintuitive

Perfecto! I have been searching for the solution for awhile and almost gave up and then I came upon this site. Worked great, thanks much.

How to sort alphabetically (& retain it) if the rt-click drop down list doesn't include a "sort by name"?

For those who are saying "Sort by Name" is not showing up, make sure you are clicking on Favorites right at the top of your browser, for example, next to File, Edit, View, then Favorites

I was trying the other one (next to the Search button) and didn't get "Sort by Name" either.

OK, I get sort by name, but who want's that ?
IE locked up on me and i had to task manager end task it. When I restarted the list is sorted ALPHABETICALLY and I can't find my most used faves (the're buried in the list)
How do I get it back to CHRONOLOGICAL order please ?

Thanks for any help you can give. I did think about going back to a previous restore point as another poster suggested, but don't know what else that will affect on my system.

Thanks. I was able to alphabetize my favorites list.

I conclude from these literally years of unanswered questions -- along with months I've wasted struggling with IE7 to find some kind of flexibility in how I can sort the favorites -- that Microsoft cannot or will not produce or offer an even mediocre bookmarking feature on its browser. I'm switching to Opera, which has elegant, fast, easy bookmark-sorting features.

I have the same issue others have, IE without being told put them in alaphabetical order and it sucks I knew where everything was based on the date, how do I get it back to what I want it at, please someone answer atleast one of us with something, why everyone who asks is being completely ignored I don't know.

Thanks! It worked.

It is truly bizzare that IE has such a screwed up method of handling bookmarks.
I thought computers were sort of designed to manipulate data, silly me.
I tried dragging the folders to the top to organize them but all that happened was that some of them disapeared.
They aren't in the recycle bin, they aren't in other folders.
Insane.

IS THERE A WAY TO REVERSE THE ORDER OF FAVORITES ?
"Recent ones on the top and old ones on the bottom".

Very Good! I never noticed that "Sort by name" Option. Thanks a lot

Wow! This worked! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been so irritated by my lengthy list of favorites & having to scroll through to find what I'm looking for. Yeah!

Worked for me. Thanks so much. In years of suffering with IE Favorites I never managed to find this, and I am no computing novice. How could alphabetical sorting of files not be the default?

More brain-damaged UI design from Microsoft. Should we be surprised? This is right up there with ribbons and the elimination of menus.

I was thrilled to se My Favorites sorted after following your instructions. Saves me much time and now no more frustratioh. Thanks

Thank you so much for this tip. I am one who is always bookmarking sites and creating favorite folders, but over time, things can really get out of hand. I've wondered for so long how to do this without going line by line. Thanks again. Now I feel much more organized.

thanks man it really helped ;)

why cant i sort my favourites by date? Its such a simple request and yet MS didnt put in this option?!

Thanks for your tip re sorting favourites in internet explorer - spent a bit of time before I thought to ask - good on you

Fantatsic solution, worked perfectly for me. Yes, the person that designed this need to learn about user friendliness! Thank you!

I hate IE, why does it reset to alphabetical sometimes? And why hasn't that bug been fixed after all this time?
And why is there no 'chronological' option, which is how most people must save them.
Add to that the difficulty of actually finding the alphabetical sort option and what have you got?
A pile of....Mac converts.

Voila, It worked for me !!!!

Thanks a Lot Dave.... :-)

genius. that's been bugging me for YEARS!!
thanks

PLEASE HELP ME SORT FAVORITES CHRONOLOGICALLY

I wish my only problem with Favorites in IE7 was like the above, my Favorites won't open in the menubar/toolbar and the Favorites center drop down pane opens but nothing shows up! When I try to open in the menubar IE7 freezes and I have to use taskmanager to close,and for the other pain in the pane(lol) my Favorites do show up in my Documents but they won't show in the Fav center as I mentioned. This happened out of the blue, any solutions, as I have been around the world and back and no one has been able to help.

I still can not use my Favorites and on top of that, when I click on Organize favorites it opens but is empty!! I am truly frustrated!!!

Dave-Great service here--a couple of comments: it's hard to find the answers in the long list of questions, and on this subject of sorting Favorites-- Personally, I'm weeding mine out, big time. You know, the utility of this tool has changed greatly over the years. Do you REALLY need to keep hundreds (or thousands!) of URLs when you know you'll never visit again (who has that kind of time?) and today's search engines make it so easy to find the info again--and maybe better/more current info? Many very techie businesspersons never save much and function just fine. Cheers, Will

Thank you!! I have been looking for a way to alphabetize my favories folder for years. I can't believe it was right under my nose the whole time.

18Oct11
Hi! Everyone,

I can see from the list that several of us are still waiting for a solution to:
I know how to alphabetize my Favorites...my LINKS list of Favorites is in alpha order. My problem is the DROPDOWN list of Favorites that appears when I add a new Favorite, i.e., the list that appears in the middle of the screen when I hit "Create in." I get all my folders and subfolders but in a totally random order...so I have to virtually read the name of every folder to find the one I want to add into. Know how to fix THAT in IE7? Thanks much.

This is a different problem which sounds similar to the 'Favorites' on the Menu Bar sorting solution.

Please offer your suggestions. Thanks
Richard

FANTASTIC - it worked great for me. Thought I was pretty good with IE and I never managed to figure out how to do that (not very intuitive) - thanks so very much!

Everytime I search for something or look at goes to my favorites. How do I stop this