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Client is using Word 2000 on Windows XP. The Help talks about how to do
this under Troubleshooting Sorts and Lists. You have to go to Options and give a field separator, in this case a space. The trouble is that in Word 2000, all of those options are greyed out and inaccessible. I've done the process on Word XP running on Windows 2000 and it works fine. I did have to delete the header row and have nothing but data, but I did get the options to sort on Word 2. I also duplicate NOT being able to select a field separator on another Word 2000 machine here which happens to be running on Windows 2000 - so we have the problem still on both operating systems. I have gone so far as to delete all columns BUT the name column. All are two-word names, all have a regular space separating the words, all are one name per row. Why can't we go select a field separator which would allow us to choose Word 2 as our sort option? |
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Hi Brenda,
Usually, I find I have to select "Word 1", then go out of the dialog box and back into it. Then additional "Word n" selections will be available in the list. Client is using Word 2000 on Windows XP. The Help talks about how to do this under Troubleshooting Sorts and Lists. You have to go to Options and give a field separator, in this case a space. The trouble is that in Word 2000, all of those options are greyed out and inaccessible. I've done the process on Word XP running on Windows 2000 and it works fine. I did have to delete the header row and have nothing but data, but I did get the options to sort on Word 2. I also duplicate NOT being able to select a field separator on another Word 2000 machine here which happens to be running on Windows 2000 - so we have the problem still on both operating systems. I have gone so far as to delete all columns BUT the name column. All are two-word names, all have a regular space separating the words, all are one name per row. Why can't we go select a field separator which would allow us to choose Word 2 as our sort option? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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