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Robert M. Franz (RMF) Robert M. Franz (RMF) is offline
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Default chronological order by dates in Word

Hi abbymae

abbymae wrote:
I am working on a word document for college and am trying to put a list of
presdents in chronological order but when I try and do it with the tables,
sort option it wont do it...


at this point, it's always expected to write what happens contrary to
your expectation ... :-)


what am I doing wrong? can anyone help me? It
will let me put the names in order but not the dates


this is best achieved if you have the date in a separate column, and in
ISO format:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso_date#Calendar_date

HTH
Robert
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