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Bob Smith
Here is a way to work with the Organize Favorites
feature of IE that I haven't seen described yet:
The goal is to keep the 10 or 20 most used
bookmarks at the top of the list on a permanent
basis, positioned in the order that you, the user,
select.
STEP 1: Create a folder called "aatop" or
something else that will sort to the top of the
folder list when IE does its thing. Go into
Windows Explorer or use Organize Favorites to move
your most used bookmarks into this folder.
STEP 2: Now go back into IE and click once on
Favorites and click once (click -- don't click and
hold) on "aatop". Your most used bookmarks are
now sitting on the screen.
Now right click on a most used bookmark and drag
it to the main list, placing it over the top
of the "aatop" folder, in the position that you,
the user, select. When you let go, IE should
ask you if you want to move, copy, or create
shortcuts here. Select "copy". Do this for all
your most used bookmarks.
On my IE (6.0) my favorite bookmarks now sit above
the list of folders, and they don't get re-sorted
each time IE comes up. Others in this forum have
written about how to turn sorting on and off.
The day will almost surely come when your favorite
bookmarks disappear from the top of the list,
spontaneously sorted alphabetically or some other
way by IE. On that day you don't get angry or
upset, you simply go back to step 2 and gently but
firmly drag your favorite bookmarks into place.
As far as maintaining your list the way you want it,
the less you work with "Organize Favorites" the
better. Use Windows Explorer to move things around,
or to see things sorted in other ways, by date
created for example.
We all know that Microsoft is an incredibly
innovative company, but perhaps Netscape set the bar
unfairly high with its bold vision, set forth
in the last millenium, of easy bookmark manipulation.
feature of IE that I haven't seen described yet:
The goal is to keep the 10 or 20 most used
bookmarks at the top of the list on a permanent
basis, positioned in the order that you, the user,
select.
STEP 1: Create a folder called "aatop" or
something else that will sort to the top of the
folder list when IE does its thing. Go into
Windows Explorer or use Organize Favorites to move
your most used bookmarks into this folder.
STEP 2: Now go back into IE and click once on
Favorites and click once (click -- don't click and
hold) on "aatop". Your most used bookmarks are
now sitting on the screen.
Now right click on a most used bookmark and drag
it to the main list, placing it over the top
of the "aatop" folder, in the position that you,
the user, select. When you let go, IE should
ask you if you want to move, copy, or create
shortcuts here. Select "copy". Do this for all
your most used bookmarks.
On my IE (6.0) my favorite bookmarks now sit above
the list of folders, and they don't get re-sorted
each time IE comes up. Others in this forum have
written about how to turn sorting on and off.
The day will almost surely come when your favorite
bookmarks disappear from the top of the list,
spontaneously sorted alphabetically or some other
way by IE. On that day you don't get angry or
upset, you simply go back to step 2 and gently but
firmly drag your favorite bookmarks into place.
As far as maintaining your list the way you want it,
the less you work with "Organize Favorites" the
better. Use Windows Explorer to move things around,
or to see things sorted in other ways, by date
created for example.
We all know that Microsoft is an incredibly
innovative company, but perhaps Netscape set the bar
unfairly high with its bold vision, set forth
in the last millenium, of easy bookmark manipulation.