Finder.app : Sort by Extension

### Question How could I **Sort by Extension** in **Column View** (as a standard view, not as a search) using the Finder.app (*as opposed to an alternative Finder.app *)? ### Sleuthing Existing information mostly concerns itself with: - **Sort By Kind** is interchangeable with **Sort by Extension**. Not sufficiently so. (1) (2) (3) - **Sort by Extension** is available via search. But not as a standard view. (1) (2) (3) - **Sort by Extension** is available via a third-party Finder app. (1) - **Sort by Extension** cannot be accomplished in Finder.app, so provide feedback here (Note: Choose macOS - Finder.app is a category in that form). (1) (2) ### Background The **Finder.app** > **Column view** > **Sort by Kind** sort order, seen below, does not appear to sort by extension: ![Screenshot of a Finder window in Column view ][9] Comments below confirmed that **Sort by Kind** does not sort by extension, leaving the sort order sort of (*kind of?*) arbitrary in Column view.