Hope I'm in the right forum, couldn't tell which one is appropriate. Also I'm sure this very basic question has been answered before but I can't find it.

Since upgrading to a more recent version of FM, I seem to have lost the ability to have semi- or partially-sorted records. If I edit a record in a field that is one of the sort criteria, the record goes shooting off to a new place in the found set and I lose my place. Older FM left the record where it was in the sort order and changed the found set from "Sorted" to "Semi-sorted".

Both ways have advantages, ergonomically speaking. Is there a way for me to choose which way FM does this?

Let me see if I have this...

You commit a record by clicking out of it and it sorts. You want to have that record on screen in the list without scrolling.

How about trying a script step that says go to newest record using a timestamp? Would that work?

In FileMaker 11, no there is not a way to choose how FM handles this. In FileMaker 12, in the sort dialog, there is a checkbox to "keep records in sorted order".