(So glad you read on....)

I experience the same thing - I worked out that sometimes, on certain
folders only, the "Open / Save As..." dialogue boxes take their instruction
on how to display files, in that folder, from the way that folder was last
viewed in Windows Explorer.

That is; if you last chose to view "C:\My Folder" in "thumbnails view" then
that is how it will be displayed in the "Open / Save As..." dialogue box!

Again, this is only for some folders, and only (I believe) if the setting
"Remember each folder's view setting" is checkmarked in the "Folder
Options" control panel.

To re-set all folders so that they will appear in the "Detailed" view all
the time in both Windows Explorer and the "Open / Save As..." dialogue
box - first clear the setting I just described. Open a [any] folder and
choose "Detailed" view. Then press the "Reset All Folders" button in the
"Folder Options" control panel....

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
...
In message , Tim Meddick
writes:
I apologise, I foolishly joined this thread half-way through without
reading all the relevant posts...

Good thing I read on, I was about to bite your head off (-:

To do the same as I advised in my last post, but in a Open / Save As...
dialogue box, then instead of using what I called "the Top Menus" "View"
"List" (& etc.,) just click on the button in the Open / Save As...
boxes that reads "View Menu" when your mouse hovers over it, and select
the appropriate item (Icons, Tiles,
Thumbnails, (Filmstrip, in some instances) or List views)....
[]
1. Excellent! If I select "Details", I can then click on a column heading
(e. g. "Name"), and it's sorted by that - even if I switch back to
"List".
2. But it doesn't _remember_ - next time I do a save, they're back in the
odd order. (Date Modified, I think.) (And it also doesn't remember if I
left it at "Details", either - it goes back to List.)
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