Sort images in Organizer by file name?

I'm running PSE 6 on XP.
I have a group of about 80 photos that came from scanning of a hard copy photo album. I have tagged all the pictures with a unique tag. I was wondering if I could change the 'view' of these images so that they would be displayed in Organizer by their Windows filename? This would put them in the same order as the hard copy album.
Thanks for any ideas!

fwiw, with my images in the 'Folder Location' view the photos are in order by their Windows filename. That is the same order as the hardcopy album the photos came from. So I then created a PSE Album. I selected all my photos and moved them into that album. The order of the pictures was retained in the Album. That worked out great. I wanted my PSE images to be in the same order. I thought I would do it with tags. But creating an album seems to work just fine.

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