I don't know what looking at them in Finder means; I'm a total amateur at this. I've opened the Finder icon from time to time to see what it does, and it makes no sense to me.
I thought I was just using Microsoft Word, as that's what most of my documents are. When I shut down the computer for a bit and re-start it, then the folders show up in the correct order. Clicking on the "Name" column made things worse: the files came out of the folders and arranged themselves alphabetically, so the whole list of my flash drive contents was a mess. Right now everything is okay, but can you tell me how to prevent this reverse alphabetizing from happening in the future? Did I commit a slip of the finger on the pad?