Sorting Text

If you do some exploring of the menus in Word, you will find that the Sort option is listed under the Table menu. Because of this, many people assume that you can only sort information stored in tables. This is not true; you can sort any information you desire. To sort text, follow these steps:

1. Select the text containing the information to be sorted. (If you are sorting a table, then simply place the cursor anywhere within the table. If you are sorting regular text, then select the entire list you want sorted.)
2. Choose Sort from the Table menu. Word displays the Sort Text dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. Using the controls on the dialog box, indicate the way in which the text should be sorted. (For regular text, outside of a table, the normal way to sort is by Paragraphs. When sorting a table, you can select which column of the table you sort by.)
4. Click on the OK button.