You mean "Word", Microsoft's word processor?

How do you create folders in Word? Why on earth do you want to store email messages as word processor documents?

This is so far from usual working practice that it's hard to know what you are looking at and exactly what you do with it. Where do these documents appear when they are in the wrong order?

I presume it is a file picker or file browser. Does it not have buttons allowing you to select which columns to use for sorting? "Sort by date" would seem to be what you want.

None of this really has very much to do with Thunderbird. You have chosen to remove the messages from their original email context and now you're almost certainly grappling with file management tools proffered by your operating system, or maybe even Word's own file picker.

I have word program all folders in there have date created as a setting.its just when i want to attach one of those documents to an email attachment in email the folder comes up in alphabetical order then i have to scroll through all the files to find the one i need to attach

OK, you're attaching documents to email messages in a file picker. Look for a way to sort the listing in that picker by date. Surely you have a column labelled "Date" or "Modified". Click on that to use it to sort by date.

Really, this has nothing to do with Thunderbird. The dialogues used to pick files are hosted by your operating system.

Mine here in LInux have columns for "name", "size" and "modified", aka "date" (well, that works until you edit a document.) A click on any of these labels, which are actually buttons, will cause the display to sort on the contents of that column.

An alternative trick is to insert a number into each filename. I do this with music files for the mp3 player in my car so the tracks play in the order in which they appear on the album, and not by whatever obscure ordering method is used by FAT32. So if you name your files thus:

01 Starting out.doc 02 Going beyond basics.docx 03 Advanced techniques.docx

then sorting them alphabetically by name will automatically get them into order of creation. Note you need to zero-pack the numbers, else 10 will appear before 2. If you're going to have more than 99 documents, use two zeroes:

001 Starting out.doc 002 Going beyond basics.docx 003 Advanced techniques.docx

then you can go up to

999 You now know everything.docx

and so on.