How can one organize apps alphabetically on Launchpad?

Why are you using Launchpad, it is just a graphical representation of your Applications folder,

the Applications folder can be ordered alphabetically.

Launchpad serves no real purpose and is just a gimmick.

Would anyone wish for a manual alphabetical solution if an automatic means were actually available? You will find that all of your effort to alphabetize your launchpad entries will eventually be undone by the operating system determining its own order.

You are correct in saying that there is no means to automatically sort apps into alphabetical order, but PaulBoyer1 didn't state that he wanted to have the task done automatically.

I undertook the task myself on the 1st page of my apps on Launchpad, and per the instructions I replied with, I was able to arrange them all but the Apps icon which stubbornly refused to take up its rightful place in the top left corner.

Naturally, when I come to start my computer again later on today, I will check the opening page of apps to see if they have retained the positions I have arranged them in. What I haven't done is to rearrange the other 2 pages of apps.

I task I will attempt to perform at a later date.

There is no automation means to organize your Launchpad items alphabetically, and even if you laboriously organize them manually, there is no guarantee that they will remain in that order.

Apple don't seem to have their own solution, so you might try this: macrumors 68020

Thanks. Click on one icon, hold down the mouse button and wait till they start to jiggle. Drag the icons into alphabetical order.1 Oct 2015

It worked for me on my 1st page of apps, but I haven't tried to move apps from page to page yet.