Tip: Don’t forget that you can flip the sorting order of your groups. Reopen that shortcut menu and the “Group by” submenu, and specify Ascending or Descending.
Filtering Filtering, a feature available only in Details view, means hiding. When you turn on filtering, a bunch of the icons in a window disappear, which can make filtering a sore subject for novices. Tip: In case you one day think you’ve lost a bunch of important files, look for the checkmark next to a column heading, as shown in Figure 2-23. That’s your clue that filtering is turned on, and Windows is deliberately hiding something from you.
On the positive side, filtering means screening out stuff you don’t care about. When you’re looking for a document you know you worked on last week, you can tell Windows to show you only the documents edited last week. Figure 2-23: You can turn on more than one checkbox. To see music by The Beatles or U2, turn on both checkboxes. In fact, you can turn on checkboxes from more than one heading—music by The Beatles or U2, rated four stars or higher.
You turn on filtering by opening the pop-up menu next to the column heading you want. For instance, if you want to see only your five-star photos in the Pictures folder, open the Rating pop-up menu. Sometimes, you’ll see a whole long list of checkboxes in one of these pop-up menus (Figure 2-23). For example, if you want to see only the songs in your Music folder by The Beatles, turn on the Beatles checkmark. Note: Filtering, by the way, can be turned on with sorting or grouping.