Mike, I got it all correct now, of course I have always played with icon view and list view, but I thought, for some reason, my document file, the one i keep in the dock, was in the list view, and for the life of me I could not get the whole file to give me the modified date view, only one by one. Bill reminded me in an e-mail after I sent back a note to you, I thought perhaps this dock business did me in, but all is ok again. -- Marta On Aug 22, 2005, at 15:35, Mike Watkins wrote:
> Marta, > > This doesn't apply just to Mail, but to all your files. I just > double-clicked on my Document file; it opened, showing me a long list > of files that I have stored there. I double-clicked then on my file > labeled Health. It also has a long list of records files. I then > clicked on the top of the right-hand side column (where it says "Date > Modified), now all those items in my Health folder are listed with > most recent activity at the top (in my case): you may reverse that > order and have them listed with most recent activity at the bottom, if > you prefer. For that, you would click on the arrow to the right of > Date Modified. See? > > I hope this helps. Haven't seen you in quite a while... you know I'm > always hoping you're feeling okay. I won't say well... perhaps that's > too much to hope for (though I do, of course). > > Try this and see what happens. > > Mike > > > On Aug 22, 2005, at 12:08 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> Mike, i don't really understand what you try to tell me. I am not >> talking about the columns in "mail" , I am talking about a file in my >> documents. Say a bunch of articles I saved; no matter when I put >> them into the list, they appear in alphabetical order. Now if I want >> to see the last five entries I made according to the dates I filed >> them, I have to go through the whole list and click on the item to >> see when it was filed or modified. I know I could put a number there >> or make an indent,to put the latest entry on top, but that does not >> help me in the long run. I am just curious if that would be possible. >> This group knows so many things i am not aware of, it always is worth >> a try. >> Marta >> On Aug 21, 2005, at 23:43, Mike Watkins wrote: >> >>> Marta, >>> Under any set of files (or sub-files), there are headings at the >>> tops of the columns, designating such things as Subject or Date >>> Received (or Date Modified). If you click on the Date column, it >>> lists according to the chronological order in which received or >>> modified. If you click on Name or on Subject, it will list those >>> alphabetically. Each individual file, say, in Documents (such as >>> e-mails from a certain individual), uses the same method to get the >>> columns to behave this same way. There is also an small arrow at the >>> far right of the Subject/ Date line. Clicking on this will reverse >>> the order so that the last is first, as best I can explain that. Try >>> it and see what happens. >>> Mike >>> >>> >>> On Aug 21, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >>> >>>> Is there a way to change the entries of files - say- in >>>> documents- where all my saved items are filed according to the >>>> alphabet , to have them show up according to the date on which >>>> they were saved? I sometimes would prefer the list showing the >>>> latest entries on top, so they would not get lost between entries >>>> from , say , a couple of years ago? I have never inquired whether >>>> there might be preferences as to how files could be stored. >>>> Marta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3570 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050822/b779f45f/attachment.bin
