Windows 11 Is there a way to change the sort order from numeric to character in Windows 11 File Explorer

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I have a folder where I store electronic copies of downloaded issues of Scientific American. The file names are like 2022_01.pdf, 2022_02.pdf, etc. but they used not to include the underscore, so I have 201911.pdf, 201912.pdf and 202001.pdf before the underscore was introduced. A DIR at the command prompt produces a file list in filename character sequence but Windows 11 File Explorer puts the underscored file names before those without an underscore, giving me the following sequence:2022_01.pdf2022_02.pdf2022_03.pdf200912.pdf201001.pdf201002.pdfIs there an option to fix this so that I get the

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