Vista - 2007 Office Home & Student documents index

The older version I have used for years has a straightforward index list of documents. I use the list option instead of icons. All were logically alphabetical, scrolling across. 2007 Office has the most ridiculous mess I could imagine. It clumps together documents that have alike starting names, putting them side by side in columns, rather than one after the other and uneven at that. To quickly scroll and find what I'm looking for makes me dizzy. Is there any way I can change it to a logical alphabetical list, the way every computer system I've used is done?

Also, I forgot to mention, I put numbers in front of documents that I want to keep at the top of the list for easy access. Files I use most often. Now in the 2007 Office, these numbers aren't under each other. They are scattered. "6." was so far away, I had to scroll to find it.

Hi Joygirl

Welcome to the forums.

Here is a picture of my MS Word 2007. Here is how I choose the "list" view. Hope this helps.

Raj

Thank you for your help. At the time of my frustration, the "list" did not change a thing. Nothing I did helped. Then, the next day, it was as it should be. Crazy. This isn't the first thing I have had trouble with. My computer with Vista is new and my Home/Office/Student is new and I'm having all kinds of problems. For two days several Excel files would not print. Then on the third day, they printed. I could go on, but I won't. Thanks gain for your help.

Hi Joygirl,

I recommend going to google.com and type in officeupdate.com then click the first result and at the top right corner click on Office Update and it should download/install Service Pack 1 for Office 2007 and also any other updates for it.
Raj

Will do. Thanks again!
JoyGirl