Troubled by few simple things on Tiger (ex Windows user)

Hey guys, I'm trying to find out how to do few simple things on a Mac
1. How do you align icons to some grid, whenever I drag and drop items in the Finder they are all out of sync... i like my icons in neat rows, what to do?
2. Is there some way to get the icons to also re-assemble by type/name/date created etc. ... i know u can do all that in the "list view" but is there a way to organize them as icons?
I know those tasks are very simple, but i've been trying and i can't find a solution... thanks!

Hi Sebastian,
yes, you can do both.
Switch to icon view. Then select "View Options" from the menu "View". There you can select both align to grid and always sort by ...
Since I use a german system the name of the option and the menu might be different. It is the menu to the left of the menu "Go To..." and within this menu the last option.
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