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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

contents of the folder; neither one
changes the contents of the folder. You

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

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

advantage of modern operating
systems is that you do have the

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