OK, Steve solved it. The key was the length of the numeric strings that I wanted it sort on. I had to have the same number of digits in the [ ] for sorting, and I'd been inconsistent; some where three digits and some were four. My bad!
So, my sort needed to be one of these: [0070 mm] [0090 mm] [0100 mm] [0200 mm] Or [070 mm] [090 mm] [100 mm] [200 mm] Then all sorts correctly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: DeRosier, Edward [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:53 AM To: lindag at techcomplus.com Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Sort order of entries in an index Reply to: Message: 20 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:34:38 -0600 From: "Linda G. Gallagher" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Sort order of entries in an index What do you mean by a complete index entry? It doesn't seem to have to match the complete second level portion of the index entry, so I'm not clear. No matter what I do, space, no space before the [, these still won't sort right under the stud and rollers first level entries. - - - - Linda, Perhaps we are not understanding the issue that you really want to solve. Can you provide some of the entries surrounding the areas in which you are having a problem? It seems to me that you are tyring to get these index entries into more than one location. As a guess, are you wanting something like the following? 70 mm stud roller locations roller maintenance standardized something... 90 mm stud roller locations roller maintenance standardized something... 100 mm stud roller locations roller maintenance standardized something... .. roller locations 70 mm stud 90 mm stud 100 mm stud .. studs 70 mm roller locations 90 mm roller locations 100 mm roller locations aluminum copper steel Ed DeRosier Anritsu Technical Publications Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. [Niels Bohr]
