(Image: Russell Smith) Filtering Files in Windows 7 Grouping and filtering files in Windows 7. Right click a section of empty space in Windows Explorer’s right pane and select Group by > (None) from the menu.See that in each group, files are now sorted by size a view that’s not possible to create with sorting alone. Clicking the header toggles the order between ascending and descending. Now click the header of the Size column to sort files.Files can only be sorted in Details view. To change the view, click the small arrow in the top right corner under the Search box, and use the slider to select Details. Make sure that you are in Details view.At this point, we have a feature that’s not so different from sorting, but you can go further: You can use the arrows at the top left of each group to expand and collapse groups individually. Now you’ll see the documents grouped by file type. Right click a section of empty space in Windows Explorer’s right pane and select Group by > Type from the menu.In the left pane of Windows Explorer, click the Documents library.

Open Windows Explorer by pressing the WINDOWS key and E simultaneously.You will need to have some documents of different file types in your Documents library. To better understand how this works, follow these simple instructions. You could for instance group files by type, and then sort by size. Grouping allows users to segregate files by category and then optionally filter them for easier viewing. Windows 7 provides a couple of additional options for organizing files. In Windows 7, users still have this option for organizing files, including the ability to add columns that aren’t displayed by default. In Windows XP users can sort files and folders by name, or by metadata such as the Date Modified timestamp, among many possible options. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to use these two Explorer features in Windows 7. First introduced in Windows Vista, the ability to group and filter files in Windows Explorer allows users to organize files and folders more effectively.

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