I haven't tried it in Word 2007, but in previous versions, if you tell Word
to sort by date, it sorts mixed dates perfectly well. It will indeed sort
2003 to the top of all other 2003 dates and May 2003 to the top of all other
dates in May 2003, but what else would you have it do?
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"The Horse" wrote in message
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Word 2007:
I'm constantly creating chronologies where some of the dates are just "May
2003" or even just "2003". When I sort by date, such things are moved to
the
front as if they are not dates at all. Is there some way it can be made
to
work (possibly involving formatting of dates such as "0.0.2003" or
"0.5.2003"
(d/m/y order, UnAmerican I know, but I'm not American).