When you open any folder in Windows 8 / 7 display, File Explorer will typically display the following details about the objects – name, date modified, Type, Size, etc. But if you wish, you can display additional information or details about the objects, be they document files, image files, video files or folders.
Let's see how we can choose the folder details to display and show additional information in Windows File Explorer columns.
Choose Folder details to display
Open File Explorer and make sure that you have set its Folder View to display
Details. Next click on the
Add columns button.
From the drop-down menu which appears, you can select some additional file attributes to display. If you need to see all the information that can be displayed about the file, click on Choose columns to open the following Choose Details box.
Here you will be able to select the details that you wish to display for the items in this folder like Account Name, Album artist, Authors, Date acquired, date archived, Document ID, Folder path, Tags, Title, Word count and so on.
Selecting these entries will also let you Sort or Group the objects using these attributes.
You can also arrange the column order by using the Move up or Move down buttons and set the width of the columns.
Once you have done this, you will have to open Folder Options. To do this, you will have to click on Options > Change folder and search options.
Under the View tab, click the
Apply to Folders button.
This will apply this folder view to all folders of a particular type.
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