Confluence Docs 3.0 : Setting a Page Family to Alphabetical Order This page last changed on Aug 06, 2008 by smaddox. You can choose to display your Confluence pages in alphabetical or manual order. This page tells you how to set the pages within a family to alphabetical order. On this page: About the Sequential Order of Pages Setting Page Order to Alphabetical ## About the Sequential Order of Pages Confluence allows you to present your pages in any order (sequence) you choose. The position of a page is reflected in the following places: The Tree tab on the space's 'Pages' view Space exports to PDF, HTML and XML The children of a page The pagetree macro The children macro ##### Alphabetical versus Manual Order By default, Confluence will present your pages in alphabetical order. When you move a page to a different position, the order becomes manual for the affected page family. When ordering pages alphabetically, Confluence actually applies a more sophisticated 'natural' order rather than a straight alphabetical order. The natural order handles numeric values correctly when doing string comparisons. Now let's consider what happens when you add a page to a page family, by creating a new page or by moving or copying a page into the family: If the page family's order is alphabetical, the new page will appear in alphabetical order too. If the page family's order is manual, the new page will appear at the bottom of the list of pages in the family. ##### Changing the Page Order You can change the order of the pages by moving pages within the page family — simply move the page to its new position while editing the page (see Moving a Page) or while viewing pages in the space's 'Tree' view (see Moving Pages within a Space). You can also change the order of a page-family from manual to alphabetical (see the 'Setting Page Order to Alphabetical' section on Setting a Page Family to Alphabetical Order). ## Setting Page Order to Alphabetical If the pages in a page family have been ordered manually, you can reset the page order to alphabetical as described below. A page family is a set of pages under a single parent page. In this section, when we say 'page family' we mean the immediate children of the parent page, not including the grand-children. The screenshot below shows a family of pages in non-alphabetical order under the parent 'Sample Page'. Notice the icon next to the parent 'Sample Page', giving you the option to order the pages alphabetically. Screenshot: A family of pages in non-alphabetical order with 'Sort Alphabetically' icon To set a page family to alphabetical order, Go to the 'Space Pages' view for the current space. To do this: Go to a page in the space, open the 'Browse' menu and select 'Pages'. The 'Space Pages' view will open. Go to the 'Tree' tab. The tree view will open, as shown in the screenshot above. Expand the branches of the tree to find the page family you want. If the page family is in non-alphabetical (manual) order, the 'Sort Alphabetically' icon will appear next to the parent page as shown in the screenshot above. Click the icon. The child pages will shuffle into alphabetical order and the icon will change to the 'Undo Sorting' icon as shown in the screenshot below. Only the immediate children of the parent page will be affected. The grand-children will not be re-ordered. (If you want to re-order the grand-children, you need to click the 'Sort Alphabetically' icon next to the parent of those pages i.e. re-ordering happens for one node at a time.) Screenshot: A family of pages in alphabetical order with 'Undo Sorting' icon If you change your mind, you can click the 'Undo Sorting' icon to undo the alphabetical sort. This option is only available while you remain on the 'Tree' tab and provided that you have not performed any other action on the page family. Once you move away from this screen or do something else with the page family, such as moving children in or out of the family, the undo option is no longer available. ##### RELATED TOPICS Moving Pages within a Space Overview of Pages Overview of Page Families Take me back to Confluence User Guide

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