Home Resources Word Sorting. Sorting Lists and Paragraphs By default, Word sorts the entire active document when you sort standard text. Method To sort lists and paragraphs: If desired, select the text to be included in the sort. From the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, choose Sort. In the Sort Text dialog box, in the Sort by list box, make sure Paragraphs appears.
In the Type list box, make sure Text appears. Select the desired order option button. In the My list has area, select the appropriate header option button. Choose OK. Active Oldest Votes.
You may use the procedure below. Starting document contains: 1. Sort the lines by the most suitable sort order This gives: 3. Improve this answer. Apologies for the delay. I forgot to remind myself in Outlook of this bounty!
Add a comment. If you want to avoid having borders between the data, you can disable these in the design tab, and then separate the data in different rows created from the layout tab That should allow you to then order the data correctly EDIT: Extra note, when sorting, dont forget to mark the "My List: Has header rows" option just above the Options button, or the headers will also get sorted and probably end up somewhere random in your table.
Juanjo Martinez Juanjo Martinez 2 2 bronze badges. I've taken the content from Juanjo's answer for testing. Initial Paragraph: before sorting The Enter symbol in the above image indicates that the next line is in the same paragraph After Sorting:.
Gangula Gangula 3 3 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Can you please clarify how you sorted? Hitting Enter directly will create a new paragraph, so the first letter you enter after hitting enter will be considered for sorting. For basic sorting it works OK, but it does not handle nested bullet lists well. It throws them out of order, instead of keeping the nested bullets with their parent bullet points. Hi Michael, thanks for the feedback. This is the behavior of MS Word and I chose to keep it to avoid confusion for new users coming from Office.
I am experimenting with a feature to order lists and maintain the hierarchy. Doesn't consider what's under a bullet point, which is what I'd consider a paragraph call it a bullet point sorter instead. Hi Andre, to avoid confusion I kept the same sorting behavior as in MS Word which is the word processor that people are more familiar with. I understand this can could be improved and am thinking in adding another option to sort lists and keep the hierarchy. Same concern as Andre Baumann: we cannot sort multilevel lists!
Implementing that would actually be an edge vs all other tools, as not managing to do it in Word is THE reason why I have even come here, hoping for this option. If you know how to do it, I am sure that I would not be the only one interested! I tried the other add on more highly rated at the time that comes up when you search for "sort".
It did more things but also could not sort if you had no text in your document after the last list item. This add-on does not have that but was fixed in v. Does exactly what I want and no more, which I love. When that happens, I close the document, reopen it, and start over. If Word doesn't sort the paragraphs using a Number type, you can use Text unless you have more than nine paragraphs.
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