How to Organize the Contents of Folders
This tip is for Windows 10 & Windows 11
One question we are asked often is how to organize folders by date, name, type, and so on. Here’s how to sort and organize folders in just about any way you want to.
Open any folder and right-click on a blank space in the folder.
You’ll see a menu appear. Click on “Sort by“, and you’ll see another menu appear.
Above Windows 10, below Windows 11
From that menu, you’ll be able to sort all the items in that folder by Name, Date, Type, Size, and Tags. You’ll also see that you can sort them in ascending or descending order.
So, if you wanted to sort files by date in ascending order you would put the newest files at the bottom and the oldest files at the top. If you add a new item to that folder, it will be placed at the bottom just like he wants.
You can sort any folder this way by name, date, type, size, and tags and in ascending or descending order.
Let’s do another example: Let’s sort a folder by name. If we choose ascending order, files will be alphabetically sorted from A to Z. If we choose descending order, files will be alphabetically sorted from Z to A. See?
Above: Files sorted by name in ascending order.
Below: Files sorted by name in descending order.
You can use this method to sort any folder and organize it any way you want.
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