Dear Connie,
I saw the difference between Arabic and Persian sort for last three
characters in my MS Excel and MS Word. 

By changing the sort order to "Farsi" this issue will be solved. 

Cheers,
~Sina

>Thanks for replying.  I should have been more clear as to the problem. The
>way "farsi"  sorts now is unfortunately according to Arabic, not Persian.
>This is most evident if you look at the last 3 letters:

>Arabic: he-vav-ye vs. Persian: vav-he-ye

>(Persian borrowed the Arabic script before Arabic underwent some changes
>and so you can say Persian has preserved the historically older order.)

-Connie

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Sina Ghazi wrote:

>
> Change the sorting language to "Farsi", located in Options panel under
Sort
> item located in Table menu item of your MS Word.
> It has worked that way for me.
>
> Cheers,
> ~Sina
>
>
> > Someone in Denmark has just emailed me that she's tryiing to type a list
> > in Persian in MS Word and the sorting doesn't work.
>
>

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