Questions tagged [sorting]
Sorting is any process of arranging items according to a certain sequence or into different sets.
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Sorting files and folders by hexadecimal and decimal values
A while a go I needed to figure out how to sort my files by hexadecimal order. I found some very useful information in this awesome answer:
Adding "NoStrCmpLogical" as DWORD with a value of ...
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How to Sort and Move Files Based on their Extensions on Windows
I'm trying to sort and move files based on their extensions within Windows, and am following this tutorial using:
@echo off
for %%a in (".\*") do (
if "%%~xa" NEQ "&...
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What are version and revision of a file?
The docs for the nnn file manager says that nnn is able to sort a list of files on the basis of:
apparent disk usage / disk usage / extension / revision / size / time / version
But what are the &...
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Outlook Online: I can’t seem to filter according to sender
Outlook Online: I can’t seem to filter according to sender!
I am working with Outlook online, chrome browser, from a desktop—not a phone app / Mac OS.) I did check some community answers, But I didn’t ...
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Difficulty performing complex sorting when listing files in a directory with the ls command
The behavior I'm seeking is a nested sort with the ls command where sorting by one method doesn't cancel out sorting by a second method. The exact desired behavior is essentially:
First sort with ...
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How can I arrange arbitrarily folders in Windows 10?
I want to sort some music folders by the release date, so I was wondering if there's a way to edit the metadata of the folder, because looking on the sort options, there's a "year" column, ...
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MS Access table not sorting by primary key
Environment: MS Office LTSC Pro Plus 2021 under Windows 11 Pro 64.
I have an Access table with 300,000 records and 28 fields, including an autonumber primary key. Yesterday, after adding the 28th ...
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How can I make new subfolders created in a directory inherit the parent folder's sort type as default (such as "date modified")?
So I have a folder within which new folders containing images are frequently created. These images are frequently updated, and I prefer to set them to sort by "date modified" so the most ...
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Editing rules in Outlook 365
I have a list of 30 rules to sort incoming mail on my POP3 and IMAP accounts, and move them into relevant folders (or permanently delete the known spammers).
Such a large set of rules didn't happen ...
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Excel: How to best sort/match two (+) columns with a different amount of rows?
Hello I am trying to figure out a few different ways to accomplish this, to find the most efficient approach. Any and all help appreciated.
Here is one workaround I found but cum er some and does not ...
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Sort information in Excel displayed in "cards" [duplicate]
I'm looking to create data "cards" in Excel which is a way to visually display information next to an image:
The reason to display information this way is because I want to always be able ...
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In an Excel PivotTable, how can I sort by multiple row fields?
In Excel PivotTables, it's easy to sort, say, the rows by the major row field: There's a "Row Labels" column with a menubutton on the side, you click it, and you get sort options, just like ...
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Sort text and numbers in Excel so the numbers sort properly?
I've created an inventory of my watercolor paints. Paints use pigment categories and pigment numbers. For example, blue pigments all start with the pigment category PB (pigment blue), followed by the ...
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Powershell: sorting directories based on file count
I am attempting to create a list that counts the number of files in a folder and then sorts the order of the folders based on that count. I have the following but it doesn't work (i.e. doesn't sort):
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Column sort is not putting numbers in the correct order
I am uploading a .csv file into a third-party program with the following data for example:
When the (third party) program sorts this data by the 'Number' column it looks like it is sorting the column ...
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