Files in Document re arranged themselves....

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Today while cleaning up and editing my document files for some time, all the files switched from being alphabetically organized from A to Z and are now arranged from Z to A. I have looked everywhere to find where to reverse that. It's never happened before. Does anyone know how to fix that?
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How about telling us which application that this happened in? Were you using the Finder at the time or some other program?
 
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The files did not rearrange themselves. You rearrange them inadvertently. You can fix the problem by clicking again (as you inadvertently did before) on the column heading "Name." You'll note a little arrow pointing up or down:

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This indicates sorting order: ascending order, and when clicked again, descending order.

This works with the other column headers as well.
 
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Thanks for you help. The only place I could find like your screen shot was when I went to Applications. I did click on that but it only arranged the apps file. Going back to Documents again there is a column header like you described and that was the first thing I had tried when everything got rearranged and there is no arrow there and when I clicked on "Name" nothing changed. I tried the drop down menu in "arrange" but nothing. I must be missing something.
I do have the files from A to Z in the correct order in the single column view in Documents, however it's the one with the columns that is reversed which I was working out of - any another other options? Again, I appreciate your help!
 

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