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Work with Explorer Views

We've looked briefly at the left side of Windows Explorer; now let's concentrate on the right sidethe Details pane. You can customize the display of information here by using one of the following six views:

• List

• Details

• Thumbnails

• Tiles

• Icons

• Filmstrip

If you don't see the Filmstrip choice from your list of the folder views, I'll explain why in the section entitled "Understand the New Views" later. To select a view, you can click the View menu or the Views button on the toolbar, as shown in Figure 7-2.

You are probably familiar with the List and Details views from earlier versions of Windows. These two views are essentially the same, except that the Details view displays information about the file's attributes, such as the creation date and modification date. One handy feature of the Details view is the ability to sort. You can sort any of the items in the Details view by simply clicking a column heading. For instance, if you want to find a letter you wrote in June 2003, just click the Date Modified heading. This puts the document list in chronological order (either ascending or descending), so the June 2003 letter should be easy to find.