Dear Computer Lady,

I really enjoy your letters! I have a question that I hope you can help me with. Do you know of a program that I can use to alphabetize a list of words, like a dictionary is done. Will appreciate any assist.

Thank you, J

Dear J,

You can alphabetize your list of words in any spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel, or software602 PC Suite.

In Microsoft Excel, just enter your words in one column, when you have entered all the words, click on “Data” in the menu bar, then click on “Sort”.

Select the column you are sorting, and then chose Ascending, or descending and click “OK”

In Software602 Tab, follow the exact same directions. The only thing you need to do different, is to highlight your list of words before you click on “Data”.

Elizabeth 

I really look forward to your newsletter and learn something valuable from each edition.

I recently purchased a new computer (Dell) with XP Home edition. Is there a way to alphabetize Favorites? I had finally found how to do it with Win. 98….but cannot do it on XP. It makes it much harder to find a listing when I have to go through everything.

Marviene in GA

Dear Marviene,

I get this question a lot. The problem is that you can see your favorites listed in many places, but you can only alphabetize them in one location.

This also works in earlier versions of windows, so if you have Windows 98 or ME, you can use these directions as well.

The menu bar, is the bar across the top of each window that usually starts with items like “File”, “Edit”, “View” and “Insert”.

1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Click on “Favorites” in the menu bar. (This will not work if you use Favorites in the toolbar.)

3. When your list of favorites drops down from the menu bar, right click on any one of the shortcuts and then click “Sort by Name”.

Elizabeth