[mso] Re: Sorting a table in Word
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:34:02 -0400
What Glenda says is true, but I'm not sure you are going to come up with
what you want, especially if the entire address is in one table cell, and,
like you say, the names are not consistent (not all just first, last,
etc.)....so, I believe the person is going to have to re-setup the table ...
Obviously, if the table is not too big yet, they can just add another column
and manually number the labels in the new column, then sort by that number
field...but if the table is very large, that could be a pain in the
arse...but once they did it, they could remove the number column, then, FROM
THEN ON, add new entries in the correct order
However, if the table is being produced from a mail merge, which is the way
it *should* be done, and if the merge was done properly and the last name is
in a separate field, the way it *should* be, they could simply sort the data
source file by last name BEFORE they do the merge, then everything would be
in the right order...that's why mail merges are a good idea...then you don't
have these kinds of problems.
Other than that, I don't know what else to offer.
Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS
Linda's Computer Stop
http://personal-computer-tutor.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Glenda Wells
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:10 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Sorting a table in Word
I don't know about other versions of Word but in XP, I've had some
success using Options from the Sort menu to separate fields then mucking
about with the Sort By choices.
Table/Sort/click Options - make selections/click OK - make
selections/click OK
hope this helps. /g
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