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Customize default sort order of folders in Teams

Folders in Teams are sorted by default on last modified date. There is no option to set a different default sort order like an alphabetic sort order.

Please add options that allows the user to set his/her own default sort order in order to sort folder names in Teams.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You need to change the view settings in Sharepoint. Yeah it's not intuiitive, but MS is enforced use in my org, so I need to adapt.

    You can customize order...
    a) Open in SharePoint
    b) All Documents
    c) Edit Current View
    d) Go to Sort and customize as needed
    e) Go to end of page and press OK

  • Stephanie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    it's annoying that all folders are first, even if a file has been updated more recently than a folder.

  • Wes commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is still not working for me. In Teams, sorted based upon the file name. Saved it as a new "View". Set that view as default. Nothing. It will not stick.

  • D commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    To add to this, am I mistaken or does TEAMS not recognise dates? i.e. if you made each file name an actual date (08_09_20 for example) -or in whichever format necessary, it will not list the files in date order will it?

  • Juan Pablo Aguila commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You can customize order...
    a) Open in SharePoint
    b) All Documents
    c) Edit Current View
    d) Goto Sort and customize as needed
    e) Goto end of page and press OK

    Your teams files will be now sorted out as needed.

  • Cindy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Like so many here, I totally agree! A way to change the default setting seems like a total no brainer!!!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Very frustrating that is sorts by oldest file first. I usually want to see the newest files first. This forces me to re-sort every time I go in to look at my files.

  • Adam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is so frustrating, I need everything sorted in number order since my teams start with project numbers. I found a work around, if you hide every channel, when you open the "hidden teams" folder, it is all sorted numerically. So as long as I hide each new one, it works. "Hidden teams" is really just another folder. Beyond crazy that this has to be done.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I don't seem to be able to set the default view sort by modified date. With the new update its sorting by name in alphabetical order. So when I set the sort column to Modified its sorting by alphabet for the modified column i.e. April, August.That's so annoying.

    Does anyone know how to to set the default view in teams to sort by modified date after the latest update.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    do you know if there is a way to get the newest to oldest unmodified in th files section to stay that way? It was like that until last weeks update now it won't stay sorted like that for me. any info to help??????????????

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It looks like you can sort by file Name, Modified or Modified By; however, the sort order is not "sticky". I believe Name is the default as of the latest version (prior to yesterday it was Modified (Newest to Oldest). There are some folders I want by Name and other I want by Modified (Newest to Oldest). This seems like a reasonable request and one that shouldn't be terribly difficult to achieve.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is dreadful. I have even put numbers in front of file names as I need them in order but once it gets to 11 it makes it alphabetical so you end up with
    1
    10
    11
    2 etc. It's the most basic thing and the most rubbish!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Everyone seems to forget that MS dont give a ****. They've sold it to your company, you are stuck with using it, MS have moved on.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For the life of me I can't understand why there's no option to sort documents alphabetically by default. This is such a simple and table stake requirement... Just do it!

  • Randy Triezenberg commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When you have more than 10 people on a team, sorting by last modified is incredibly frustrating. Yes, sorting by Name is only one extra click. But it's one extra click *every time* you navigate away from the Files view in a channel and back to it. Allow the team owners the same flexibility that SharePoint has to define a default sort order in the view.

    It looks like this suggestion has been open for nearly a year. Please make this improvement!

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