How to sort an entire table in Microsoft Word 2003

[Guest]

I am trying to figure out how exactly to sort an entire table in alphabetical
order in Word 2003

 

[Tony Jollans]

If Table > Sort doesn't meet your needs, you will probably need code. If so,
can you give some more details of exactly what you want, please.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can't sort an entire table, only one column at a time.

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

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[Tony Jollans]

Sorry, Suzanne, but I have to disagree. Maybe it's just the way you've
worded it but you can do a lot more than just sort one column at a time. You
can sort the rows in any block of cells in a table by up to three columns
within that block. What you can't do is sort columns by row.

What you also can't do, and maybe this is what you meant, is sort the whole
table cell by cell.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I think the OP wanted to sort things cell by cell.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That was my assumption. And it is true that you can sort by only one column
at a time. There can be primary, secondary, and tertiary sort keys, but
these columns are still sorted individually. When people want to sort "an
entire table," it is almost always that they've got a bunch of mailing
labels that they want to sort by last name, which would be a challenge in
the first place, even if the labels were all in one column.

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

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I think the OP wanted to sort things cell by cell.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Sorry, Suzanne, but I have to disagree. Maybe it's just the way you've
worded it but you can do a lot more than just sort one column at a time.
You
can sort the rows in any block of cells in a table by up to three columns
within that block. What you can't do is sort columns by row.

What you also can't do, and maybe this is what you meant, is sort the
whole
table cell by cell.

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Enjoy,
Tony


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[Graham Mayor]

Sorting mailing labels - if that is what the OP wanted to do - is more
easily achieved if you remove the table first -
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels_into_mail_merge.htm you can then use a
Wildcard search to swap first and last names
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm then sort the list, swap
the first/last name again and re-merge to labels
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm

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That was my assumption. And it is true that you can sort by only one
column at a time. There can be primary, secondary, and tertiary sort
keys, but these columns are still sorted individually. When people
want to sort "an entire table," it is almost always that they've got
a bunch of mailing labels that they want to sort by last name, which
would be a challenge in the first place, even if the labels were all
in one column.

I think the OP wanted to sort things cell by cell.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Sorry, Suzanne, but I have to disagree. Maybe it's just the way
you've worded it but you can do a lot more than just sort one
column at a time. You
can sort the rows in any block of cells in a table by up to three
columns within that block. What you can't do is sort columns by row.

What you also can't do, and maybe this is what you meant, is sort
the whole
table cell by cell.

--
Enjoy,
Tony


You can't sort an entire table, only one column at a time.

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

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

I am trying to figure out how exactly to sort an entire table in
alphabetical order in Word 2003