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alphabetizing by first letter of exisitng list in Word 2007
Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of
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On Jan 1, 11:12*am, jakson wrote:
Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of each line of the list? * Yes. You just asked 7 minutes earlier. |
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Yes. See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Sorting_Li...o_methods).htm for some macro methods. jakson wrote: Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of each line of the list? |
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Probably overkill for the described sort, which can easily be accomplished
by a simple sort, as Peter precisely described in his previous answer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Yes. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Sorting_Li...o_methods).htm for some macro methods. jakson wrote: Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of each line of the list? |
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Is there some reason, other that your particullarily annoying habit of
bloating your post count, that you chose not to let the OP decide if the method is overkill or not? Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Probably overkill for the described sort, which can easily be accomplished by a simple sort, as Peter precisely described in his previous answer. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Yes. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Sorting_Li...o_methods).htm for some macro methods. jakson wrote: Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of each line of the list? |
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Well, we may never know which method the OP chooses, but I'm just curious
why you think anyone would take the trouble to copy and install a macro for such a simple and straightforward task. To me this seems like installing a macro to center text or apply a specific font. When the required tool is available on a menu or the Ribbon, why would I choose to use a macro instead? I'm asking this question seriously. If you were in this situation, with a document full of paragraphs to be sorted, would you write a macro to do it or just pull down Table | Sort or click the Sort button on the Home tab? Note that I'm not denigrating macros or implying that they are not massively useful (for example, I suspect a macro would be needed to assign bookmarks to copied form fields, per another question here). I just don't understand why you think anyone would prefer a macro for this specific task. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Is there some reason, other that your particullarily annoying habit of bloating your post count, that you chose not to let the OP decide if the method is overkill or not? Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Probably overkill for the described sort, which can easily be accomplished by a simple sort, as Peter precisely described in his previous answer. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Yes. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Sorting_Li...o_methods).htm for some macro methods. jakson wrote: Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of each line of the list? |
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Where in my post did I say "I think you should take the trouble to ..." I
did not say to the OP that I think you should do this over something else, nor do I care if they do or do not. As you took such pains to point out, Mr. Daniels had already provided a perfectly sensible and perhaps preferable method of performing the specific task. Like you, I did not denigrate his method. In fact, until now, I didn't say anything about it at all. I simply provided a method for the OP to consider and take or leave at will. I'm asking this question seriously. If you were in this situation, with a document full of paragraphs to be sorted, would you write a macro to do it or just pull down Table | Sort or click the Sort button on the Home tab? No. I would not write a macro to do it because I have already written one that I use. I have it assigned to shortcut and it is available at the link I posted free for you or anyone else to use as you or they see fit. I wrote and use the macro because, while I do not normally write jumbled up paragraphs and then sort them, when I want to sort items in a list I want to make sure that duplicate items are not present in the final list list. ..... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Well, we may never know which method the OP chooses, but I'm just curious why you think anyone would take the trouble to copy and install a macro for such a simple and straightforward task. To me this seems like installing a macro to center text or apply a specific font. When the required tool is available on a menu or the Ribbon, why would I choose to use a macro instead? I'm asking this question seriously. If you were in this situation, with a document full of paragraphs to be sorted, would you write a macro to do it or just pull down Table | Sort or click the Sort button on the Home tab? Note that I'm not denigrating macros or implying that they are not massively useful (for example, I suspect a macro would be needed to assign bookmarks to copied form fields, per another question here). I just don't understand why you think anyone would prefer a macro for this specific task. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Is there some reason, other that your particullarily annoying habit of bloating your post count, that you chose not to let the OP decide if the method is overkill or not? Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Probably overkill for the described sort, which can easily be accomplished by a simple sort, as Peter precisely described in his previous answer. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Yes. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Sorting_Li...o_methods).htm for some macro methods. jakson wrote: Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of each line of the list? |
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Your macro is thus a useful tool for doing something other than what
OP requested -- and if you had pointed out that extra feature in your first message, you likely would have gotten a thank you rather than a puzzlement in response. On Jan 1, 3:42*pm, "Greg Maxey" wrote: I'm asking this question seriously. If you were in this situation, with a document full of paragraphs to be sorted, would you write a macro to do it or just pull down Table | Sort or click the Sort button on the Home tab? No. *I would not write a macro to do it because I have already written one that I use. *I have it assigned to shortcut and it is available at the link I posted free for you or anyone else to use as you or they see fit. *I wrote and use the macro because, while I do not normally write jumbled up paragraphs and then sort them, when I want to sort items in a list I want to make sure that duplicate items are not present in the final list list. .... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in . .. Well, we may never know which method the OP chooses, but I'm just curious why you think anyone would take the trouble to copy and install a macro for such a simple and straightforward task. To me this seems like installing a macro to center text or apply a specific font. When the required tool is available on a menu or the Ribbon, why would I choose to use a macro instead? I'm asking this question seriously. If you were in this situation, with a document full of paragraphs to be sorted, would you write a macro to do it or just pull down Table | Sort or click the Sort button on the Home tab? Note that I'm not denigrating macros or implying that they are not massively useful (for example, I suspect a macro would be needed to assign bookmarks to copied form fields, per another question here). I just don't understand why you think anyone would prefer a macro for this specific task. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Is there some reason, other that your particullarily annoying habit of bloating your post count, that you chose not to let the OP decide if the method is overkill or not? Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Probably overkill for the described sort, which can easily be accomplished by a simple sort, as Peter precisely described in his previous answer. "Greg Maxey" wrote in . .. Yes. *See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Sorting_Li...o_methods).htm for some macro methods. jakson wrote: Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of each line of the list?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Mr. Daniels,
Thank you for this enlightening post. I am sure that the OP is similiarly tickled pink and feeling well treated and welcome in this group by your poke in the eye when you could just as easily and gracefully overlooked his obviously erroneous double post. Peter T. Daniels wrote: Your macro is thus a useful tool for doing something other than what OP requested -- and if you had pointed out that extra feature in your first message, you likely would have gotten a thank you rather than a puzzlement in response. On Jan 1, 3:42 pm, "Greg Maxey" wrote: I'm asking this question seriously. If you were in this situation, with a document full of paragraphs to be sorted, would you write a macro to do it or just pull down Table | Sort or click the Sort button on the Home tab? No. I would not write a macro to do it because I have already written one that I use. I have it assigned to shortcut and it is available at the link I posted free for you or anyone else to use as you or they see fit. I wrote and use the macro because, while I do not normally write jumbled up paragraphs and then sort them, when I want to sort items in a list I want to make sure that duplicate items are not present in the final list list. .... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in . .. Well, we may never know which method the OP chooses, but I'm just curious why you think anyone would take the trouble to copy and install a macro for such a simple and straightforward task. To me this seems like installing a macro to center text or apply a specific font. When the required tool is available on a menu or the Ribbon, why would I choose to use a macro instead? I'm asking this question seriously. If you were in this situation, with a document full of paragraphs to be sorted, would you write a macro to do it or just pull down Table | Sort or click the Sort button on the Home tab? Note that I'm not denigrating macros or implying that they are not massively useful (for example, I suspect a macro would be needed to assign bookmarks to copied form fields, per another question here). I just don't understand why you think anyone would prefer a macro for this specific task. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Is there some reason, other that your particullarily annoying habit of bloating your post count, that you chose not to let the OP decide if the method is overkill or not? Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Probably overkill for the described sort, which can easily be accomplished by a simple sort, as Peter precisely described in his previous answer. "Greg Maxey" wrote in . .. Yes. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Sorting_Li...o_methods).htm for some macro methods. jakson wrote: Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of each line of the list?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Please excuse the developing low intensity fracas in the other branches of
this thread. Mr. Daniels is correct in pointing out that the macro solution that I provided may have an undesirable effect on your list. As I attempted to illustrate and perhaps it was clear to you, the macro will automatically remove duplicated entries in your list. This could be useful if you have haphazardly created a long list of names or other items and now want to sort and streamline the list. The following is a revised version of the basic macro which gives you the option to a) sort the list, b) sort and delete duplicates, or c)sort, review then delete or keep duplicates. Note: a) has no practical value over the UI method Mr. Daniels initially provided. Sub SortAndRemoveDuplicatesFromList() Dim oPars As Paragraphs Dim oPar As Paragraph Dim myCol As New Collection Dim bView As Boolean bView = False Set oPars = Selection.Paragraphs 'Perform the sort If oPars.Count 1 Then Selection.Sort SortOrder:=wdSortOrderAscending Else MsgBox "There is no valid selection to sort" Exit Sub End If 'Remove duplicates If MsgBox("Do you want to remove duplicate entries from the list?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Remove Duplicates") = vbYes Then If MsgBox("Do you want to view duplicate entries before deleting", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "View Duplicates") = vbYes Then bView = True End If For Each oPar In ActiveDocument.Range.Paragraphs On Error Resume Next myCol.Add oPar.Range.Text, oPar.Range.Text If Err.Number = 457 Then If bView Then oPar.Range.Select If MsgBox("Do you want to delete this duplicate instance?", vbQuestion + vbYesNo, _ "Duplicate Item") = vbYes Then oPar.Range.Delete End If Else oPar.Range.Delete End If End If Next End If End Sub jakson wrote: Is there a way to cause an existing list to be organized by the first letter of each line of the list? |
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