ALPHABETIZING FAVORITES

Several people have posted requests for help on this topic lately; I replied to them individually, but now think the problem might be widespread enough to warrant my sending it for public posting.

1.  I'm running on Win98 SE platform; and when I click on Start button, then right-click on the Favorites  list that drops down, I can select "Sort by Name" near the bottom of the favorites list.    However, I don't really know whether this feature is native to Win98 or a feature of some utility I've added.  Moreover, it does not seem to create a global change.

2.  To do that,  open your browser and click on Favorites; select "Organize Favorites."

This brings up a two-paned box, with the right-hand pane containing a list of all the favorites.  In all likelihood, the earliest entries will be in alphabetic order; but grouped together in random order at the end of the list will be all more recent entries.  Left-click on one of these--and hold the left  mousekey down as you move the black horizontal line that  appears in lieu of its  title to the desired position .  Then lift the left finger, and watch the folder jump into place.

This is a bit tedious; for you must do it for every bookmark that's out of place; 
but if you discipline yourself to make this a regular housecleaning job, you'll never have so many to do at one time again.  I try hard to remember to do it to all recently-added bookmarks about once a week, while it is still a five-minute job.

HTH,

Anne Nolen

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