New topics are added to Help Builder by default in the following order:

• Topic Type
  
• Alphabetically
  

This default sort order is applied whenever the set of topics where the topic is inserted has not been explicitly sorted or when you insert a topic as a child of a parent topic.

Overriding default topic insertion order
The default order is not used if you insert a topic in a sorted list and you insert the topic at the current level.

To do this:

• Pick the parent topic of the topics that are to be sorted
  
• Use the Topic Sorter to arrange topics or just click update to force sort orders as is
  
• Select the topic after which to insert your topic
  
• Click New Topic and follow the Wizard
  

Your new topic is now inserted following the original topic you started from.

Note that if you insert a new topic from the topic above, the topic will again auto-sort using thing original sort order even if the list was previously sorted.

See also

Adding a new topic