Hi Phil, I didn’t want to dought your instructions. I’m sorry if I raised this impression. I find it very useful if people take the time to answer very detailed. Thanks for that. And I agree, to assume people know to press Enter is something you can expect.
What I find confusing: 1. My VO doesn’t anounces wether the column is highlighted or not. 2. After choosing a column I can open a context menue. There’s an entry called something like „Sorting and filter options“. I translated this entry name from german and so it might be a little bit different in your context menue. If I press on this entry nothing happens. Do you know something about this functionality? All the best Jürgen > Am 09.01.2015 um 15:59 schrieb Phil Halton <[email protected]>: > > Yes, I use V3.5 (2019). I don’t know what your question is, all I said was > that you could sort up or down (high or low or whatever you want to call it). > I detailed the method I use for sorting table rows using a specific column as > the sort key. I also showed how I sort subsets of rows and columns. You can > also use multiple sort keys. So, what method are you saying doesn’t seem to > work? Did you forget to press enter or VO space on the header selections? You > know after entering the headers and arrowing down to either row or column > headers, did you first press enter before trying to arrow right or left to > the specific column header to use? It’s the only thing I can think of that > you might have not done. I re-read my message and that’s the only thing I > left out. I just assumed people knew that sort of thing. > > > >> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:36 AM, Jürgen Fleger <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Phil, >> did you try this method in Numbers version 3.5 (2109)? I’mnot quite sure but >> it seems not really to work that way anymore. All I can do is sorting up or >> down. But if you could try it out and tell wether it worked still for you in >> this version of Numbers it would be a motivation for me to play around a >> little more. >> Thanks and >> all the best >> Jürgen >> >> >>> Am 08.01.2015 um 21:51 schrieb Phil Halton <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>> >>> In numbers, I sort table rows/columns by the following method. I don’t know >>> if this will work the same with a selection, but it might. A little >>> experimentation will tell the tale. >>> >>> for sorting tables by row or column. >>> 1, position VO anywhere in the table and press VO Shift Vertical bar (the >>> key above the return key). >>> 2, Press VO down or up arrow to select whether to work in rows or columns. >>> 3, VO right or left to select the desired column heading, or up and down to >>> select the desired row heading, and press VO space to select it. >>> >>> for example, if you wanted to sort by column C, you would arrow down to >>> Column headers after pressing VO shift vertical bar, then arrow right or >>> left until you get to Column C and then press VO space to make it the >>> selected column. >>> >>> 4, bring up the context menu with VO shift M. >>> 5, arrow down through the menu and select the desired sort option. >>> 6, exit the headers and return to the normal table mode by pressing VO >>> shift vertical bar again. >>> >>> This procedure sorts the entire table by either rows or columns. To sort a >>> subset of rows/columns in a table, you would first select the rows/columns >>> to be sorted, and then go into the sort/filter inspector. in there you >>> would add the row or column you wish to sort by by pressing the “add” >>> button, and then you can set sort options in the scroll area before >>> actually doing the sort by pressing the “sort now” button. >>> >>> I just messed around with this a little and I don’t believe you can sort >>> just a selection of data in a table row or column. That is, the entire row >>> or column will be included in the sort action with the selected field being >>> the sort key. >>> Hope this all makes sense. >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> try to jump to the head of the table at first by pressing VO + Shift + ‚. >>>> It might be another key combination on english keyboards but you might >>>> find it yourself. There you can choose wether to jump to column head or >>>> row head. Then you can open the context menue. >>>> But in terms of the sorting data entry in the menue I got the same >>>> results. I wonder wether there’s something broken. >>>> All the best >>>> Jürgen >>>> >>>> >>>>> Am 08.01.2015 um 17:53 schrieb Jim Fettgather <[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>>>> >>>>> This one really has me stumped. >>>>> After highlighting a row of numbers to be sorted in either a row or >>>>> column of numbers, then stop interacting with the table and VO left arrow >>>>> to the formatter group, because this seems to be where the sort options >>>>> are located, no matter what I select, the sort now option is dimmed. >>>>> Evem doing VO Shift M, and then selecting sort options, I am immediately >>>>> returned back to the spreadsheet. >>>>> Is there a hidden secrent to be able to sort data in Numbers? >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to [email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>>>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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