Thanks, Anne, this is even quicker!!! - but I am sure glad I got to take a look at a spreadsheet . And then there is also, according to Jerry, the BBedit program !! What choices! Thanks ever so much. And all this is so easy, -- just knowing about it, that's the rub. Marta On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 11:04 America/New_York, Anne Cartwright wrote:
> Marta, > > In addition to putting into a spreadsheet, you can alphabetize right > in the WP Word Processing) document: > > Started as: > > Places > Horses > There > Able > Were > Once > People > > > To alphabetize a WP list: > Highlight the list Go to Edit in Menu bar >Sort Selected Paragraphs> > (down near bottom, just before Writing Tools > > > Ended as: > > Able > Horses > Once > People > Places > There > Were > > Note your options are Ascending, Descending and Random. > > Also can Sort leading numbers by numeric value or Ignore leading > spaces. > > This is especially handy when you want to alphabetize a list in a > letter you are writing. No need to go to SS (Spread Sheet) and then > back to WP. > > Anne > > > On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> Thanks Bill and Jerrry for giving the full meaning for the >> abbreviations used! Harry, what is GPS? >> Question : I made a list of all those abbreviations used in the >> Mac-e-mails ( in the order they were received! !) They are on a plain >> word processing document of Appleworks 6 and in random order. >> is there a way in appleworks or any other installed program that >> would automatically sort these into alphabetical order if I gave the >> sorting click ? The list is getting long and needs alphabetizing. >> Marta >> Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin A.D. >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be July 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. Marta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1925 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20030709/4898d3e9/attachment.bin
