Contact Sheet-pictures out of order

JR
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jim_r_belquist
May 14, 2004
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My numbering scheme for last 2 contact sheet layouts was: 1975-1; 1975-2;1975-3; etc all the way to 1975-69. My contact sheets printed 1, 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,2,20…I tried numbering with 02,03, etc., still didn’t work. What’s wrong?

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DS
Dick_Smith
May 15, 2004
Jim,

When you number things you should alwasy put the "zero" in front of any number between 1 and 9. Your computer is sorting them exactly the way it is supposed to with the numbering scheme you used. Putting a "0" in front of the "1" to make it"01" will take care of the issue.

Dick
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Dick_Smith
May 15, 2004
I should have added that if you look at it you’ll see why it’s doing it…1 is the first number it looks at next it finds the next 1 +0 and then 1 +1 and so on.

Dick
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Beth_Haney
May 15, 2004
And, to add to Dick’s advice, it would be even better if you went to a leading zero, since you’ve got at least 69 pictures in this one particular set. Always let the computer sort on a zero first, and then it will get the remainder of the numbers in the correct order. And Dick is right, this is a computer "thing", not something Elements is doing independently.
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Dick_Smith
May 15, 2004
Thanks, Beth. Leading Zero was what I was looking for…….another synapse missing!

Dick
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Beth_Haney
May 15, 2004
Boy, those misfires crop up more and more often nowadays, don’t they?! And I’m speaking from personal experience. 🙂
JR
jim_r_belquist
May 15, 2004
Thank you everybody…I will lead with a zero.
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Dick_Smith
May 15, 2004
Beth,

What did you say?
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ronald_hands
May 16, 2004
I’ve found it often makes good sense, particularly for web galleries, to lead with two zeroes and then increment the numbering by five. That allows numerical room to insert other pictures or shuffle pictures around. IOW, 005, 010, 015 etc.
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Dick_Smith
May 16, 2004
Ron,

Nice tip.

Dick

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