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.
"CyberTaz" typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet wrote in message
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Perhaps it will ease the pain to consider that the overwhelming majority
of the sorting done in a word processing program involves content in a
Table or a Tabular List. Not only does it not seem absurd to have it
there, but also quite logical 
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Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
"BruceM" wrote in message
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In Word 2000 you would select the text you want sorted, then click Table
Sort, and choose to sort by paragraph. It is in my view absurd to sort
something that isn't in a table by clicking the Table menu, but there it
is. I don't know if they improved on the reasoning in Word 2003.
"Karen" wrote in message
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"joy" wrote:
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.