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Word indexing should sort numbers in numerical sequesnce
While editing a book on WWII history, I prepared an index. Unfortunately,
the names of military units were sorted in character order (as Word states) but this is of no value when constructing a book of this type, i.e., the 101st Airborne Division should be listed AFTER not before the 82nd Airborne Division. The index sort order employed by Word makes preparing an index for such a publication invalid. Suggestion: provide some sort of "switch" that would indicate that the numbers are to be treated as absolute numeric values when they are sorted prior to placement in an index. Such a switch might understand the following - ?101st Airborne Division ?82nd Airborne Division treat the numbers as absolute values, sort them into the proper order, then print the Index entries as 82nd Airborne Division 101st Airborne Division Of course, the switch should be available for use at any level of the index entry, for example, Airborne Division:?082nd Airborne Division:?101st. Having such a facility available in Word would make it considerably easier to use the product to produce text, historical, or other publications that require numeric values to be in order by absolute value. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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