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How to sort an entire table in Microsoft Word 2003
I am trying to figure out how exactly to sort an entire table in alphabetical
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How to sort an entire table in Microsoft Word 2003
If Table Sort doesn't meet your needs, you will probably need code. If so,
can you give some more details of exactly what you want, please. -- Enjoy, Tony "Kim F" Kim wrote in message news I am trying to figure out how exactly to sort an entire table in alphabetical order in Word 2003 |
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How to sort an entire table in Microsoft Word 2003
You can't sort an entire table, only one column at a time.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kim F" Kim wrote in message news I am trying to figure out how exactly to sort an entire table in alphabetical order in Word 2003 |
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How to sort an entire table in Microsoft Word 2003
Sorry, Suzanne, but I have to disagree. Maybe it's just the way you've
worded it but you can do a lot more than just sort one column at a time. You can sort the rows in any block of cells in a table by up to three columns within that block. What you can't do is sort columns by row. What you also can't do, and maybe this is what you meant, is sort the whole table cell by cell. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You can't sort an entire table, only one column at a time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kim F" Kim wrote in message news I am trying to figure out how exactly to sort an entire table in alphabetical order in Word 2003 |
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How to sort an entire table in Microsoft Word 2003
I think the OP wanted to sort things cell by cell.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message ... Sorry, Suzanne, but I have to disagree. Maybe it's just the way you've worded it but you can do a lot more than just sort one column at a time. You can sort the rows in any block of cells in a table by up to three columns within that block. What you can't do is sort columns by row. What you also can't do, and maybe this is what you meant, is sort the whole table cell by cell. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You can't sort an entire table, only one column at a time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kim F" Kim wrote in message news I am trying to figure out how exactly to sort an entire table in alphabetical order in Word 2003 |
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How to sort an entire table in Microsoft Word 2003
That was my assumption. And it is true that you can sort by only one column
at a time. There can be primary, secondary, and tertiary sort keys, but these columns are still sorted individually. When people want to sort "an entire table," it is almost always that they've got a bunch of mailing labels that they want to sort by last name, which would be a challenge in the first place, even if the labels were all in one column. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... I think the OP wanted to sort things cell by cell. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message ... Sorry, Suzanne, but I have to disagree. Maybe it's just the way you've worded it but you can do a lot more than just sort one column at a time. You can sort the rows in any block of cells in a table by up to three columns within that block. What you can't do is sort columns by row. What you also can't do, and maybe this is what you meant, is sort the whole table cell by cell. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You can't sort an entire table, only one column at a time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kim F" Kim wrote in message news I am trying to figure out how exactly to sort an entire table in alphabetical order in Word 2003 |
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How to sort an entire table in Microsoft Word 2003
Sorting mailing labels - if that is what the OP wanted to do - is more
easily achieved if you remove the table first - http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm you can then use a Wildcard search to swap first and last names http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm then sort the list, swap the first/last name again and re-merge to labels http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: That was my assumption. And it is true that you can sort by only one column at a time. There can be primary, secondary, and tertiary sort keys, but these columns are still sorted individually. When people want to sort "an entire table," it is almost always that they've got a bunch of mailing labels that they want to sort by last name, which would be a challenge in the first place, even if the labels were all in one column. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... I think the OP wanted to sort things cell by cell. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message ... Sorry, Suzanne, but I have to disagree. Maybe it's just the way you've worded it but you can do a lot more than just sort one column at a time. You can sort the rows in any block of cells in a table by up to three columns within that block. What you can't do is sort columns by row. What you also can't do, and maybe this is what you meant, is sort the whole table cell by cell. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You can't sort an entire table, only one column at a time. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kim F" Kim wrote in message news I am trying to figure out how exactly to sort an entire table in alphabetical order in Word 2003 |
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