How to sort folders by last characters of folder name in Windows 7?

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Published on 2013-03-26T01:31:19Z Indexed on 2014/08/22 10:22 UTC
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I have a stack of client folders with names like this:

eastcoal 008
mee 022
orr 047
owaka 032
owen 025
powernet006
redpath 031

Normally this works, but sometimes I'd like to sort by the number. So how can I sort folders by the last characters in the folder string? Characters will always be three consecutive numbers, and will run from 001 to 999 (until I've done a thousand jobs, which will take years).

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