On Jan 4, 2007, at 7:28, Margot Walker wrote:
Hi, Tamara. If you're using Appleworks database, here's what you do: Click on Organize, then on Sort records. Then click Clear. Next, on the Field list, click on the first field you want to sort by and click Move.
OK. So I hadn't been doing the "Clear" schtick, though I seem to have been doing everything else right. I've tried it now, with "Clear", and it'sd still "no cigar". I used "author" (in ascending order), and got: Torenhave, Burkhard, Kortelahti, Voelcker, Cook, Löhr, Stang, Nordstrom. Not quite the order I fed them in (Cook went in first), but pretty much. And it's not an order which makes any sense, not in any alphabet I'm familiar with.
Nor do I seem to be able to "highlight/copy/paste" (like Ican with paragraphs in ordinary documents), either, even assuming I wanted to shift each entry into its proper position manually.
Pox on technology...
Continue doing this until the fields are in the order you want to sort by.
Erm... On second thoughts... Am I supposed to be doing this until *all* the fields are "moved" to the sorting order part of the window?
PS. Tried to sort by title and it worked just fine. But author... no, and no, and no. Torenhave wants to be first, with Burkhard below her, etc... Grrrr. Very discouraging; what's the point of sitting here and typing in all that info, if all I get is a mish-mash?
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