Thanks for your quick reply.

I have fairly elaborate file structures, so I use the date and file type as as means to quickly sort files to find the one I want. Your techniques are useful, but not "mass" enough.

As it happens, the date and file type columns seemed to have turned themselves back on. I don't know what I did -- karma, maybe?

What I *did* do was have the Word program opened. Then I used Windows Explorer to find a particular file. When I went to save my revisions via Word, the date and file type columns were there. Amazing.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

Craig