Steve, Thank you! You've made me feel much younger. I knew that I'd been able to do this in Word 2003, but thought I was having a senior moment this morning.
Annette -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Griffiths, Steve Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] more on sorting in word Karen, Annette, I just did this in Word 2003 in the following way: Select the text, open the Table menu and choose Sort. In the Sort by drop-down I had two options: paragraphs and field 1; Tab to the Options button and press it. DownArrow to Other radio button and focus jumps into the associated edit. Press SpaceBar to replace the default hyphen character with a space; Tab to and press the OK button to return to the Sort Text dialogue. Tab to the Sort By drop down and it should now have three options: paragraphs, Word 1 and Word 2. The first time I did this it had Word 1 but not Word 2. I pressed OK just to close the dialogue, then went back into the dialogue and the Word 2 entry was in the Sort By list and I could sort by it. I don't know if this was a glitch on my system or a problem with the Sort feature. Every time I've tried it since, the entries in the Sort By drop-down tracked the changes I made in the Sort Options dialogue. Steve -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Annette Carr Sent: 04 February 2009 17:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] more on sorting in word Karen, You are right, I could not find it either. I know that I've done this in the past, but I admit it has been a while. It must have been in an earlier version of Word, or some other word processor. All I can say is I must be getting old thus qualified to say "Back in my day we could sort on the second word on a line". I don't have time right now to look into this more right now, but I will put it on my list of things to do and see if I can figure it out. Annette -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of karen schrade Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:09 AM To: jaws users Subject: [JAWS-Users] more on sorting in word Hi, Annette wrote: <<an advantage of using Word with your info in a list (not a table) is that you can tell it which word to sort on in each line. So for example if your list is written first name followed by last name, and you want to sort on last name not first name, then you can tell the sort to look at the second word on the line. >> How do you tell it to sort on the second word? I've played with all the buttons and can't get it to sort that way. 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