Putting your Favorites in Order
So if you are still using Internet Explorer, you may have had an issue finding a site that you recently bookmarked. Hopefully you are utilizing the folder options for organizing your favorites. But I have sat down at many computers and pulled up the bookmarks to find it full of random sites in the order that the person chose to save the site.
I had someone asked me today how to put them in an order that they could work with. It is easier than you think. When viewing your bookmarks in Internet Explorer, all you have to do is right-click on them and select the option of “sort by name.” This will now alphabetize the bookmarks in the order that you have saved them.
One tip – when bookmarking a site you get the option to type in a name for the site. There will already be something in there from the site, but you have the option to type something in that makes sense to you.
Another tip – this same principal can be applied to the programs that you have installed that show up in your Start Menu.
For a detailed article from Microsoft click here.
October 21, 2008 at 8:26 am
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February 23, 2009 at 11:13 am
I have a monstrous bookmarks file, stretching back to 1995 (and some of those, interestingly, are still good).
My problem is that I have switched to Google’s Chrome as my preferred browser. And I cannot find that anyone has developed a widget or workaround that allows you to alphabetize and otherwise organize and manipulate your bookmarks.
Are you aware of any such animal?
I can’t believe that Google hasn’t added this yet since from Day One it seems to be the biggest complaint users have with Chrome which, otherwise, is a remarkable improvement on browsers.
Best,
kwc
February 23, 2009 at 11:14 pm
As far as I can tell there is no simple “Sort by Name” option in Chrome. There is a lot of talk of adding this down the road but as of now the only way is to drag and drop. But with a large amount of bookmarks, that would be too much. Good luck!