# Can I Alphabetize "Favorites"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 15, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-alphabetize-favorites/250503 "2004-06-15T17:37:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-alphabetize-favorites/250503/1 "2004-06-15T17:37:15Z")
On the PC, when you store “favorites” or “bookmarks”, there does not appear to be any manner by which to alphabetize them. You’d think this would be an automatic function and/or semi-automatic, but oh noooooo-siree-bob! Is there a way to do this, or trick it into doing this? - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-alphabetize-favorites/250503/2 "2004-06-15T17:41:02Z")
If you hold your left cursor down on the Favorites entry you want at the top, and drag it up, it will stay. It’s a manual operation, but it works. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-alphabetize-favorites/250503/3 "2004-06-15T17:52:40Z")
In IE, right click any favorite and choose “Sort By Name”. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-alphabetize-favorites/250503/4 "2004-06-15T17:55:38Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > If you hold your left cursor down on the Favorites entry you want at the top, and drag it up, it will stay. It’s a manual operation, but it works. Hey, you don’t even have to hold any key! Thanks to you, I found that you can drag and drop a bookmark anywhere you like…just don’t double-click, and you’ll be fine! Cool! 🆒 - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-alphabetize-favorites/250503/5 "2004-06-15T22:02:16Z")
If you Export your favorites (File -\> Import and Export) then Import them back from the file, they get loaded in alphabetical order. At least that seems to be what happened in my case. ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-alphabetize-favorites/250503/6 "2004-06-16T00:11:02Z")
Just go to the top of IE where you see File Edit View Favorites Tools Help. Click on Favorites, then move your cursor to one of the items and right click on it. Then click on Sort By Name near the bottom of the menu. So simple… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Roches](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc8723/32.png) [@Roches](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roches)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-alphabetize-favorites/250503/7 "2004-06-16T03:00:21Z")
Or you could open the Favorites folder, move the files somewhere else (perhaps backing them up along the way), then move them back to Favorites. This will unsort them. Kind of annoying when you try to move your favorites to a new computer, but it works if you haven’t spent a long time memorizing them in the order you added them. ---
**Author:** ![biqu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-alphabetize-favorites/250503/8 "2004-06-16T11:26:21Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned [menusnap](http://www.rietta.com/menusnap/) yet, which would be an ideal solution if the OP is running one of the supported versions of Windows.