How to alphabetize a list

[BruceM]

We click the Start button to stop the computer, so I suppose we can get used
to anything, but that doesn't make it logical. Logical would be to put
sorting on the Tools menu, in my view. That being said, Help does explain
that sorting is a situation in which the Table menu is used in the absence
of a table (although it doesn't put it like that).
Lots of things are hidden in rather obscure places. For instance, to make
choices about default formatting of ordinal suffixes (such as in 1st, 2nd,
etc.) you click Insert > AutoText.
By the way, I am not a Word basher at all. Word has some wonderful
features. My biggest complaint is that the interface, features, and
automation can get in the way.

 

[Guest]

IWhen I look in Help within MS Word (2003) it says How to sort a list or
table, and then it only tells how to sort in a table. This is just one long
list of names and I want to alphabetize the list. I don't want them in a
table. If I try to put them in a table and sort from there I get a long
black vertical line and the names disappear. Can anyone help? TIA.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Although the Sort command is on the Table menu, you don't have to have text
in a table to sort it. You do have to have each item in its own paragraph.
Then select the text to be sorted and click on the Table | Sort command.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

IWhen I look in Help within MS Word (2003) it says How to sort a list or
table, and then it only tells how to sort in a table. This is just one long
list of names and I want to alphabetize the list. I don't want them in a
table. If I try to put them in a table and sort from there I get a long
black vertical line and the names disappear. Can anyone help? TIA.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Assuming that each item is in a separate paragraph, you can select the whole
list and click Sort on the Table menu. Make sure to sort on paragraphs.

In Word 2007, you'll find the Sort command in the Paragraphs group of the
Home ribbon tab.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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