Strange Alphabetical Format Appeared in My Documents

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Last week, out of the blue, when I opened up My Documents to save a doc, it
appeared with a alphabetical heading in a list format. A had all my
folders/docs starting with "A," and on down the alphabet. I nearly flipped
out. In all my years on the computer that has never appeared. It was nearly
arranged but not from anything I did. I shut down, opened up again, ran
everything I could think of include One Care, and Penicillin's free scan -
nothing at all showed up.

What was this (it's gone now)?

XP PRO, IE 6, SR2 (then); Office 2003, AdAware, Avast, Windows Defender on,
no temp. internet files at the time. Thank you.
 
Last week, out of the blue, when I opened up My Documents to save a doc, it
appeared with a alphabetical heading in a list format. A had all my
folders/docs starting with "A," and on down the alphabet. I nearly flipped
out. In all my years on the computer that has never appeared. It was nearly
arranged but not from anything I did. I shut down, opened up again, ran
everything I could think of include One Care, and Penicillin's free scan -
nothing at all showed up.

What was this (it's gone now)?

XP PRO, IE 6, SR2 (then); Office 2003, AdAware, Avast, Windows Defender on,
no temp. internet files at the time. Thank you.

--
A true friend is someone who thinks
you are a good egg
even though she knows
you are slightly cracked
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Clicking on "name" gives you alphabetic order. But you'll know that?
 
In Windows Explorer, if you go to View / Arrange Icons by / and click
the Groups setting, you'll get that. It can also be done with the
following three keystrokes... alt-v, i, g. Not sure why it happened,
maybe just one of life's little wonders. :)
 
Yes, within the group, this was an itemized visual display of my
folders/docs with the alphabetical letter at the top of each group --
nothing else except the letter, "A" for example, and all folders and docs
under that letter.


Last week, out of the blue, when I opened up My Documents to save a doc,
it
appeared with a alphabetical heading in a list format. A had all my
folders/docs starting with "A," and on down the alphabet. I nearly flipped
out. In all my years on the computer that has never appeared. It was
nearly
arranged but not from anything I did. I shut down, opened up again, ran
everything I could think of include One Care, and Penicillin's free scan -
nothing at all showed up.

What was this (it's gone now)?

XP PRO, IE 6, SR2 (then); Office 2003, AdAware, Avast, Windows Defender
on,
no temp. internet files at the time. Thank you.

--
A true friend is someone who thinks
you are a good egg
even though she knows
you are slightly cracked
Click to expand...

Clicking on "name" gives you alphabetic order. But you'll know that?
 
Ahhhh, excellent - I change my VIEW options because I have to use a screen
reader (adaptive technology such as Dragon, ZoomText, etc) ... I must have
'hit' the wrong option by mistake. Sheesh. Thank you very much.

I'm so glad you are all 'here.'
 
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