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# Umbraco tip of the day -sort your document types
- URL: https://blog.tsd.digital/umbraco-tip-of-the-day-sort-your-document-types/
- Published: 2009-01-21T19:59:39.000Z
- Updated: 2009-01-21T19:59:39.000Z
- Author: Tim Gaunt
- Tags: The Site Doctor, Umbraco, Web Development, #Import 2025-04-01 05:37

I thought I'd share this as it's something I've been thinking about trying for a while. Umbraco is great but sometimes you want the default document selected when creating a page to be one that isn't the alphabetically first one.

To work around this I tend to prefix the important Umbraco document types with a symbol (or you could use 1\. etc I guess) but if instead you use a space (" ") before the name of your document type, Umbraco will place it at the top of the list for you.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/64/5b/645b11c2-b436-444c-a523-58dca4ca7bd8/content/images/tim/img/Order-Umbraco-Document-Types.png)

The nice thing to note here is that they obviously trim the name first so it just appears as "Text Page" rather than " Text Page".

I found this out on our latest site which is just about to go live: [www.nhshistopathology.net](http://www.nhshistopathology.net/?utm%5Fsource=The%2BSite%2BDoctor&utm%5Fmedium=Blog&utm%5Fcampaign=Tim) \-check it out and let me know what you think.

Enjoy!