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Are there special characters that can be used for sorting but not displaying?

We have a short simple list of text strings on a platform that forces alphabetical order. We'd like to have a custom order without prefixing numbers or other distracting characters (it's a customer-...
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How do I reorder the pages opened on startup Google Chrome?

I've got a number of pages set to open when I start Google Chrome (1), but I'd like to change their order. There's no option on the Options dialog Basics tab for reordering the pages (2): Where does ...
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Default file order of "dir" command in Windows console

Just wondering how Windows determines file ordering when running a dir command (without any arguments) in a command prompt. I know you can explicitly specify an order, but just curious how ordering ...
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Is the order of e-mail recipients guaranteed to be constant?

When sending an e-mail, is there anything in the sending/receiving protocols that guarantees, or is supposed to guarantee, that anyone receiving the e-mail will see the lists of recipients in the To ...
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How do you change the appearance of a reference list in overleaf

I am making a document in overleaf, latex, but I am running in some problems with the reference list. I have a reference bib package called references.bib with the following input: @article{Laplaud, ...
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Ordering files alphabetically is not respected in Windows Explorer [duplicate]

I've a folder with a file list. All files have the same root name but change in order on its refere date, as follow: This is my wished alfabetically order: MyName - 202003.pdf MyName - 202006.pdf ...
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How to reorder tabs in Kate?

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 and installed Kate Version 15.12.3 through the official Apt repositories. For some reason now I am unable to reorder tabs. I may be mistaken, but I could have ...
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How do I reorder the playlist items in the VLC playlist window?

In the VLC playlist window, I can't seem to drag the items around to change their order. Is that normal? In every other media player I've used before, this is possible. At the moment I'm resorting to ...
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How to re-order pinned entries in Windows 10 JumpList

I have some pinned entries in the Jumplists for various of my Taskbar-pinned programs: I want to re-order those pinned entries. Is there any way to do so? Drag-and-droping does nothing, alas.
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Make windows' grouped programs to be in the most recently used order using win + number shorcut

Windows groups programs together in the taskbar so that the user can access them using win+#. You can cycle through them by pressing the same # multiple times, but these programs are ordered in the ...
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Prioritised outgoing emails using Exim

Our outgoing email queue uses Exim (on Centos) and is used both for sending bulk batches of email to clients and sending authentication keys, eg as part of the forgotten password routine. On some ...
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Firefox tab shifting like in Opera

In Opera there is a nice feature that keeps me hooked: Shift+Tab will move to the last opened tab. Pressing Shift+Tab then subsequent tabs (Shift+Tab then Tab again) breaks out of the last used tab ...
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MS Excel Control sort order of items without using their values

I have a series of process steps I am tracking in MS Excel. The names of the steps do not sort in the order I want them to appear. Below is a sample of some of the steps: Dock Receive Load Conveyor ...
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How do you sort bookmarks in Safari alphabetically?

I have a lot of bookmarks in Safari and I would like to sort them alphabetically. It's a pain to do it manually, and I don't seem to find a "Sort alphabetically" menu option. Is this at all possible?
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Comma separated values (literally, not csv) in the same cell in excel, put in individual cells

I have a column of cells in excel which contain mails, some only contain one mail as they should but others, have more than one email per cell in this format: [email protected], [email protected], three@...
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What does ">> file command" do, and how does it differ from "command >> file"?

Picking up from this highly voted comment to What does `>>` mean in terminal command?: "program before" What does that mean? Command obviously, but redirections can also be written prepended, ...
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Sort list dynamically on Excel

There is a list of numbers in column A in an Excel worksheet. I would like to display these numbers in column C in order. Column C should update automatically when column A is modified, without ...
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Couldn't find pygtk because of PATH order? Where is default PATH defined?

I installed a program that imported pygtk. It worked fine in my environment, but a "blank" environment (e.g. a new user) wouldn't work. I determined it was due to PATH. The resolution was baffling ...
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Manipulate data in Excel to order results per a certain column

I want to make the information in some columns (but not all) displaying in rows, please see below an example. This is what I have (unfortunately this doesn't allow extra spaces so everything is ...
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How to change the sort order of existing and furture folders in Claws Mail?

By default, my emails are sorted by date descending. I prefer to have all my folders sorted in an ascending order instead. What should I do so that I can automatically switch all the existing and to-...
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How to order time cells in access after midnight?

I am using MS Access 2007 on Windows 2010 and have an Access DB where I have to order some records by time (hours:minutes). The values in the cells start from 5:00 AM until the 1:00 AM. The problem ...
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How can we control the device driver load order in Windows XP? [closed]

We are trying to install both an HP scanner and a Kodak scanner on an XP machine and the problem is that HP's scanner driver always places itself into the first and default scanner device position. We ...
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Is there an automated way to edit the names and order of Excel sheets?

I'd like to reverse the order of the sheets in an Excel 2007 workbook and wonder if there is any way to do this other than a manual tedious process. I have around 100 sheets, so I'd like to avoid the ...
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SATA disks boot order?

I have a computer with 4 SATA disks connected, 2 to the motherboard and 2 to a PCI-card. I've moved all the disks from other computers so 2 of them already has windows installed, the other 2 has just ...
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How to order cells in lane in excel?

It is very easy to order cell values in column, but how can I order many values in a lane? I would like to avoid to copy paste/trasponse order copy paste/trasponse
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Why I lose bibliography numbering when I switch to IEEE - Alphabetic Order style in Word 2007?

When I use IEEE - Reference Order style for my Bibligraphy table I get the references numbers OK. Well formated as [2]. But when I switch to Alphabetic Order style I lose the numbers, and in their ...
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What's the logic behind the Ctrl-Tab order in Internet Explorer 7?

Using Ctrl+Tab in Internet Explorer 7 (on Windows XP) seems to follow no sequence that I can work out. Using Shift+Ctrl+Tab even jumps around with no clear logic in what tab order is being followed. ...
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Does the order of command options in linux matter?

For example, when I entered either: gcc -O hello.c -c Or gcc hello.c -c -O Both did not complain. Does the order of command options matter?
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Number grouped data using VLOOKUP?

I have a huge dataset with income brackets in column B and BMI values in column C: totinc BMI 15600>18200 19.5 18200>20800 27.4 20800>23400 22 23400>...
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How would I make a bootable CD/USB drive that auto-boots a system from a specific, non-default hard drive?

Context: I have a system that consistently forgets hard drive boot order. I specify it in the BIOS, and after the next reboot, it's gone. My primary boot drive is on an addon card (SAS HBA). The ...
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Windows 7 feature or freeware to keep a window always beneath others

Some programs e.g. GridMove and XNeat allow users to keep a given window above other windows using an "Always On Top" command. Is there a way to do the reverse i.e. "Always At The Bottom" with any ...
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In utf-8 collation, why 11- is less then 1-?

I found that the sort result in ASCII: Source file test: 1- 11- 1-a 11-a Sort using ASCII: $ LANG=en_US.ascii sort test 1- 1-a 11- 11-a And using UTF-8: $ LANG=en_US.utf8 sort test 1- 11- 11-...
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Reorder applications and other login items on OS X

How can I reorder aplications and other login items on OS X 10.6 since System Preferences doesn't give us that power.
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In terminal, take value of numbers into account when using ls

When listing directories in Bash, I would like the value of numbers to be taken into account. Currently this is the output I get: $ ls test_1.txt test_11.txt test_12.txt test_2.txt test_3.txt ...
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Is it possible to permutate shell globbing expressions?

When using normal shell globbing, * often matches files in lexicographic order. For certain reason, sometimes I don't want this behavior. Is there a way to scramble matching results so their order is ...
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Windows XP alt-tab: How to restrict options to certain applications, in certain order and exclude others?

In Windows XP, Alt-tab keypress sequence to select applications, how can I ensure that certain applications always appear, in a certain order, with others always excluded? Background for asking is ...
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Change icon order for .ico file

.ico file contains icon with various size in particular order. Is there any utility to change this order in .ico file?
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How to reverse the order of multiline text sections separated by blank newlines/line breaks?

How to reverse the order of multiline text sections separated by blank newlines/line breaks... ..., with a simple command or application, preferably without programming? I don't want a sort, but a ...
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Mac OS X software always order files alphabetically rather than by type

I have noticed many Mac applications sort the files alphabetically rather than by type. A good example would be Coda by panic.com. The files in the file menu are organized alphabetically. I ...
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Upstart Help: Change Ubuntu 10.04 Service Boot Order

I am having an issue with the order in which services start up in Ubuntu 10.04. My workstations are configured to use winbind to connect to my Domain Controller for authentication. The problem is ...
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How to affect order of firefox addons?

For example, one add-on changes URLs (Long URL Plase), the other shows additional information for them (WoT), but for unchanged URL. How to make "Long URL Please" run before "WoT"?
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Sorting files (images) and then renaming them automatically according to the sort

We want to sort image files in a directory and want them to renamed according to the order we gave. Is there a tool that can do this? (os: windows xp)
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How to reorder Empathy IM Client Contact List Groups?

Does anyone know how to manually rearrange the default contact list groups so they aren't in alphabetical order? I'm using Empathy 2.30.0.1 Ubuntu 10.04.
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What's up with tab order on my Mac?

So, I just got my first Mac. It is slick, and I feel like I don't know how to do anything, but overall it is a great machine. However, I am becoming frustrated with the tab order in most web pages. ...
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How can I have Excel reorder my rows correctly?

Sorry for the vague question. Let me explain. I am pulling data from my company's database. One of the columns is the line number on a Sales Order. However, the way our system works is that if an SO ...
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How do I Reorder Recent Items[Applications] in Start Menu?

I am using the "recent items" feature of the Start Menu in Win7, but the only problem is the most used items are closer to the top, while the least used are at the bottom. I think it would be more ...
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Albums order in iTunes: order by artist, then by year

I use iTunes (in OSX) with the grid view, and the albums are by default ordered by artist. Within each artist, the albums are ordered alphabetically by album name. I'd like to have an ordering by year,...
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Windows Task Manager process ordering

Is there any rhyme or reason to the default ordering of the Windows Task Manager processes tab under Windows XP? It seems totally random. And when sorting by CPU or memory, why do they default to ...