Title says it all. Material sourced from Word (groan): I suspect gremlin 
characters are messing up sort. 

I need to alpha-sort some 60 pp. Each entry starts with '[ref]' in left column, 
where 'ref' is the reference marker. When sorted on col 1, the results aren't 
alpha. Some sorting has taken place, but not a lot. There may be gremlins: in 
many lines, positioning the insert cursor at the start of the line and pressing 
the right arrow key does not advance the cursor past the '[' until the right 
arrow key is pressed again.

Copying one of the offending '<invisible character>[' pairs to the Find dialog 
fails to find the character pair. However, searching for '^[' with wildcards on 
shows that the not-sorted lines do not start with just '[', even though that's 
all that is visible. Equally, lines that *have* sorted ok *do* start with just 
'['.

So: I know why it's not working, but no how to fix it.

Helpful ideas, anyone?

FrameMaker 7.0p757 for Mac.
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Steve

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