How To Organize Favorites or Bookmarks In Alphabetical Order In IE and Firefox Browser
When you add an interesting site to your Favorite list (for Internet Explorer) or Bookmarks list (for Firefox), the new site will always appear as the last item in both the Favorite or Bookmarks lists. The same will happens if you add it into a particular folder in the Favorite or Bookmarks list. When they are more and more collection of sites added into the Favorite or Bookmark list, you will find it very difficult to locate some of the bookmarked sites if the sites in the list are not organized and sorted accordingly.
In fact both Internet Explorer and Firefox allow users to sort their bookmarked sites in alphabetical order. The sorting process is pretty simple. However, many users might not know this simple trick. If you want to sort your Favorites list (for IE) or Bookmarks list (for Firefox), just click the Favorites/Bookmarks menu, move your mouse to any empty space in Favorites/Bookmarks lists, right click to show the shortcut menu. Choose “Sort By Name”. You will see your Favourites/Bookmarks items are in alphabetical order now.
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Re: How can I sort Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites by Priority?
Here is another tip on trying to find the answer.
I go to the search engines and ask:
How can I sort Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites by Priority?
When the search engines selects a Page.
Then I go to the Browser’s menu and select Edit and I select (((Find on this Page)))
Then I type in the word( priority ). I scroll down the page to find ( priority ).
There are a lot of sayings of ( priority ) For Files, or Docs or this or that.
But what you are looking for is ( Favorites sort or organize by Priority ) .
The sad part is, I have not been able to located : Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites sort or organize, by Priority.
It’s just not Possible, to sort Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites by Priority.
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Re: How can I sort Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites by Priority?
Kim here is some information that can help.
I add Folders in my Favorites Bar and then put important Links in the Folders.
This will speed things up for you.
I also rename important Favorite Links, like example:
1- (then type the name of an important Link)
or
A-(then type the name of an important Link)
If Microsoft’s Internet Explorer would let us sort by Priority, we would not have to do this!!!
YES ! it DOES work and ALSO in the Start Menu/Programs and the folders under Programs in XP
Hmmm? now to play around…. how about chronological / most used / recent used order ???
Many Thnx
How do you put it back? I only like chronilogical order. I use folders to organize and shorten the list length.
Thanks, Lou
Many thanx… I have been scratching my head wondering why only some favorites were in order. Simple when u know how !!
Many thanx for your splendid tip to help sort out my FireFox bookmarks
Wa;ter
Fantastic, I've been complaining about this for years and how simple the solution, funny how Google search works better than windows help. Thanks.
Brilliant!
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I HAVE 100'S OF FAVES, IT TOOK FOREVER TO FIND WHAT I NEEDED THIS WAS SO EASY TO DO I THOUGHT I DID IT WRONG AT FIRST!!!!
fantastic!
Thank You! It Work!!
It doesnt work you moron!
Nice tip, thanks.
million million thx. u will get a million million karma ptz 4 this great tip
brilliant and simple. many thanks. i can check duplicates so easily. you are now in my bookmarks!
What happens if I don't want to sort by name? What happens if I want to keep my bookmarks in a order of priority for me? I'm so sick of the bookmarks reorganizing themselves into alphabetical order. Then I have to reorganize them all. What a hassle.
Hi Kim
I am in the same boat as you. I feel the same way as you do.
It is really SAD that we can’t arrange our Favorites in a order of priority?
I have searched for that answer for years and so far, I never have found the answer.
I use to use Netscape and they would let you arrange there Bookmarks any way that you wanted. When I had Netscape I would go to the Hot Sites of the Day.
I could Bookmark the site that I liked ( Very Fast) and not have to remember what
the name of the site was. The Bookmark would Always drop to the bottom of the Bookmark list. Then I would arrange the Bookmark in a order of priority to me. I would Never have to Know or Remember the Name of the Site, because of the order of importance I placed the Bookmark. I have noticed most people do not waste time to search Favorites. They just type in Google what they want. If they could use a Favorites priority it would be MUCH BETTER.
Thanks for this tip!
there is no need to right-click on empty space, to sort via Name. You can right-click on a folder itself to sort by Name. I's wondering why they are not implementing automatically sort by name in IE/FF.
Might be sometimes in future.
As an alternative you can use Advanced URL Catalog, a which you can use it to import bookmarks from IE and Firefox, clean them up(remove duplicates & dead links) and then export to the browsers automatically sorted.
This also works on the Start Menu/Programs and the folders under Programs in XP.