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All grid views (similar in appearance to an excel spreadsheet) can be customized to suit your needs. These grid views can be customized by adding sorting and grouping to columns, filtering by value or changing which columns are displayed.

Sorting

Inside any grid view, such as ‘Currently Open Trades’, right click on the column header you wish to apply sorting on.

Grid View Column Header Right Click | Stock Portfolio Organizer

This should display the following pop-up window.

Grid View Column Options | Stock Portfolio Organizer

Then simply select ‘Sort Ascending’ or ‘Sort Descending’ depending on which direction your want to sort the values.

Grouping

The procedure is the same as above but this time simply select ‘Group By This Column’

Filtering

The procedure is the same as above but this time simply select ‘Filter Editor’ which should display a window similar to the following.

Grid View Filter Editor | Stock Portfolio Organizer

Use the editor (shown above) to set your filtering options then click ‘OK’ to apply the filter.

Changing Displayed Columns

The procedure is the same as above but this time select ‘Show Column Chooser’ which should display a window similar to the following.

Grid View Column Chooser | Stock Portfolio Organizer

To remove a column click and drag the column header from the grid view and drop it on the ‘Column Chooser’ window. To add a column you do the reverse. Click and drag a column from the column chooser to the spot in the grid view where you want it displayed.

Saving Your Modified View

Once you are happy with your view, you can save it for instant recall later. To do so click ‘Save As’ which can be found in the ‘Layout’ menu.

Save Layout As In Grid View Pointed Out | Stock Portfolio Organizer

It should open a window similar to the following.

Save Layout As Window | Stock Portfolio Organizer

Next, give your view a name and description then click ‘Save’.

Loading A Modified View

To load a saved layout click ‘Layouts’ found in the ‘Layout’ view menu.

Layouts In Grid View Pointed Out | Stock Portfolio Organizer

This should bring up the following window.

Layouts Window

Next, select the layout you wish to load then click ‘Open’. If you want you can make a layout load automatically each time a view is opened by selecting it and clicking ‘Make Default’.