Changing order of a list of names in Word

[Reb]

I have 2000 pages of lists which all have the same number of names (about
500). Certain sections of the list need the names to be reordered. Manually
it will take me weeks. Is there a way to replace sections together. I am
using Word 2003.

Example

names
names
names
names1
names2
names3
names4
names
names
names5
names6
names7
names
names

Numbers above mean nothing other than a different name. Need to change

names
names
names
name2
name3
name1
name4
names
names
names6
names7
names5
names
names
etc

Simple ctrl+h seems to only allow for change of one line at a time? Thanks
much for any suggestions!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you just want to alphabetize them, can't you use Table | Sort?

 

[Reb]

The names are not of people but plants that are in scientific order by
species. The scientific order has changed and I have to update by 2000 lists
which are lists of locations where plants are found. No alphabetic order to
them at all.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's possible someone can help with some VBA if you provide more information
about what the desired order looks like.

 

[Reb]

Thanks for the suggestion. I knew how to change the list order in excel.
Since the plant names also had a trailing tag of location seen, each location
list was different. I pasted lists to excel, split off tag, reordered and
put back together. Then pasted back to Microsoft Word. It took two days,
but once I got into a rhythm I did it in half a daze while watching news on
TV.