To change alphabetical order

[Guest]

When I use Sort function in Word, I would like to change order in which it
sorts. Instead of sorting in alphabetical order (a, b, c, d,...) I would like
it to sort in some other order (e.g. a, b, d, c,...). I need to do this for
characters I created with equation field, so they are sorted correctly.

Bogdan Dumka

 

[Jay Freedman]

Sorry, you're out of luck with this request. There's no provision for any
other sort order in Word. (Technically, if you write your own sort function
in a macro, you can set any order you like, but that's definitely not a job
you'd wnat to try unless you're a good programmer.)

Probably the best you can do is to sort in alphabetical order, and then
manually move the entries that need to be in a different order.

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[CyberTaz]

May be more trouble than it's worth, but if the items are in a list you
could assign a number or letter on each line using a comma or tab to
separate from the corresponding item. Then select the whole list, Table>Sort
as usual and delete the "sort keys" (or format them as Hidden charracters)
when done.

Even creating a custom sort order in Excel would be problematic for what you
want, though. It would probably be quicker to just drag 'n' drop.