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Hello. Today we're going to be discussing[br]the different views available in

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"Computer," and how to change among the views, and how to sort in the different

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views. Now the view that we're in right[br]now is the small icon view. This view is

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good if you have a lot of things in a[br]given folder that you'd like to be able

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to see all at once and if you have very good eyesight and good hand-eye coordination.

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You might decide however you'd like to[br]see things a little bit larger. If you

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right-click on a blank part of the[br]pane, you can choose "View"

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and instead of choosing "Small icons," I[br]might choose medium or large or even

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extra large icons. In all of these views[br]you see an icon representing the object

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as well as the object's name. Once I get[br]into the large icon view, I can actually

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see a thumbnail of one of the pictures[br]in here. There's another way you can

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change among views, but you need to be[br]able to see your menu bar to do that. You

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might not see your menu bar, and if it's[br]hidden you can display it by going to

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Organize-->Layout, and click on "Menu Bar." From here, you have a menu option and you

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have the same views available here that[br]you had by right-clicking. You can go

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through each of the views yourself and[br]see what's available. The one other view

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that I'd really like to point out,[br]however, is the "Details" view. I really

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like this view because it gives you not[br]just the information you had before in

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those small and the large icons views,[br]but it gives you some additional

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information as well: When was the file[br]last modified, what type of file it is,

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what's its size, and if you right-click[br]on the field headings row, you could

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choose to add even additional fields to[br]display. By default your files are

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probably going to be organized[br]alphabetically a-z: first A through to Z

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in the folders, and A to Z in the file[br]names. If you wish to change the order

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when you're in the "Details" view, it's[br]really easy. Maybe I'd like to group all

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of my bitmap images together. I'd like to[br]create a folder

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and put all my bitmap images in. Well, I[br]can just click on the field heading for

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"Type" and if I click on it once,[br]everything will be sorted in ascending

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order by type -- folders first then files. If[br]I click on a type field heading again it

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reverses the sort order so it's sorting[br]in descending order. I'm going to go back

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to having things sorted alphabetically[br]by name. This method of sorting is only

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available in the "Details" view. If I[br]switch to one of the other views -- maybe

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the medium icons view -- I can still sort,[br]but to do so, I would right-click on a

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blank part of the pan' and then choose[br]"Sort by," and select the field I'd like to

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sort by -- again maybe "Date modified" -- maybe I'd like to have all the things that

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were modified fairly recently close[br]together so I can see that I remember that I

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wanted to work with a Word document that I worked with just last week but I don't

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remember what the name of the document was. By sorting according to

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"Last modified," I'd be able to see fairly[br]quickly which document was modified in

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the past week. The sort order and the[br]view that you use do not change the

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contents of the folder; neither one[br]changes the contents of the folder. You

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may use any sort order and any view that you find useful. Sometimes you might want to

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change back and forth between the views; that is entirely your choice. One of the

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advantage of modern operating[br]systems is that you do have the

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customization. So go and choose whatever you'd like to do