Changing the Sort Order of Lists in a Windows SharePoint Services-based Web Site

Web sites created with Windows SharePoint Services include many Windows SharePoint Services interactive lists when they are provisioned, such as announcements, events, contacts, tasks, and more. You can also create your own lists for any number of purposes.  You can then insert those lists into any of the pages in your site and change the way the lists are displayed.  Further, you can change the sort order of lists to suit your needs. 

To change the sort order the fields displayed in a list in your Windows SharePoint Services-based Web site, open a page containing a list in the site with FrontPage 2003 and do the following:

1. Right-click on the list you want to change the layout in and select List View Properties... from the flyout menu.
   
   
    
2. The Data View Details task pane opens up. Click Sort and Group: under Manage view settings to open the Sort and Group dialog.
   
   Note: The Available fields window shows what fields are available to sort by and the Sort order window shows what fields are in use and how the list is currently being sorted.
   
   
    
3. To change how the list is sorted, click an item in the Sort order window and either click <<Remove to remove it or Move Up or Move Down to change the sort priority. If there are no fields in the Sort order window then you will need to click on a field in the Available fields window and then click Add>> to add it.
4. To sort in descending order, click on a field in the Sort order window and then click Descending under Sort Properties to change the sort order to a descending order.

More information
For more information about list properties, see Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Help.