Hayseed: Just read and noted your instructions for saving the results of Explorations in the order or rank that you want them saved in. This has been bugging me for awhile so today I thought I'd see if I could find a solution here in the forum. Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. Best, Shelley

Hayseed, It seems MS 7.0 had the feature you are talking about. In MS 7.0 the favourites showed the securities in the sequence in which they were added. So we could rank the results of an Exploration and then save those ranked lists to favourites and they stayed that way. However, I think this feature was not by design and somewhere along the way they made sure that the favourites were sorted alphabetically. Obviously, the wonderful feature we are talking about was lost. This feature was so powerful and so many things could be done with the help of Ranked favourites, that I have continued to use MS Pro 7.0 inspite of having upgraded to MS Pro 9.0. Further it saves lot of time and adds efficiency. I could scroll through various securites by clicking the NEXT or PREVIOUS button on the chart toolbar and move to next or previous ranked securites. (The list in the "Choose a Security..." also stayed ranked in ver 7.0) I feel the solution is not very complex - On the options or Tools menu of the open security dialog box, a facility can be provided where the user can select whether he wants to have NonAlphabetical or Alphabetical Favouties: One more small related issue: we can make a selection whether we want to view the list by Symbol or by Name if we are opening a local Security, - however if we are opening a security from Favourites then this feature is not availble at the moment. I have to go to local security tab - change the selection - come back to favourites if I want to change this setting. It will be good if we could make the selection between name or symbol at the favourite tab itself without going through this workaround. I was not sure if many users wanted to have this Feature, however your posts suggest that it can be useful to many users. Let's look forward to have a solution soon. Regards, SMG

Hayseed, This feature was not documented in ver 7. As I said earlier it is possible that this NON Feature might have crept into without intention. It was only while I was doing some trial and error that I came across the possibility to use it in such a manner. However, it will be very good if this feature is now introduced by design in the future releases/versions of MetaStock. Regards SMG