Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

2018-07-08 Thread Ted Zimmer
: Michael D. Setzer II Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2018 11:01 PM To: Ted Zimmer; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table Did a test with the extention. Pasted 7 columns of a spreadsheet I have with a date column as the 7th column with paste special as html

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

2018-07-07 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Did a test with the extention. Pasted 7 columns of a spreadsheet I have with a date column as the 7th column with paste special as html format. The sort extention then does sort the date field by the month, but if you highlight the date column, and set the numeric format to yy-mm-dd or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

2018-07-07 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:15 07/07/2018 +, Ted Zimmer wrote: Your suggestions have solved my problem. Good-oh! I was preparing to say more, but no need now. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

2018-07-07 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:57 07/07/2018 +, Ted Zimmer wrote: ... but I will become more wary about posing questions that would be considered dumb. I'm not sure what you mean here: for what it's worth, nothing I said suggested that your question was "dumb". But the precise answer depended on a number of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

2018-07-07 Thread Ted Zimmer
Your suggestions have solved my problem. From: Brian Barker Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2018 3:50 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table At 19:42 07/07/2018 +, Ted Zimmer wrote: >Microsoft Word all

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

2018-07-07 Thread Ted Zimmer
Thank you. I'll try what you suggest, but I will become more wary about posing questions that would be considered dumb. From: Brian Barker Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2018 3:50 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

2018-07-07 Thread Ted Zimmer
@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table Install the extension sortwritertable which can sort tables. Tools -> Extension Manager... 2018-07-07 21:42 GMT+02:00 Ted Zimmer mailto:zimpr...@hotmail.com>>: Microsoft Word allows sorting in a table by date, but apparently

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

2018-07-07 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:42 07/07/2018 +, Ted Zimmer wrote: Microsoft Word allows sorting in a table by date, ... Microsoft Word is apparently readily available. If you prefer it, why not use it? ... but apparently LO Writer does not. This is not apparent to me. Am I correct? I think not. Is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

2018-07-07 Thread Bo Siltberg
Install the extension *sortwritertable* which can sort tables. *Tools -> Extension Manager...* 2018-07-07 21:42 GMT+02:00 Ted Zimmer : > Microsoft Word allows sorting in a table by date, but apparently LO Writer > does not. Am I correct? Is there a way to do it? > Ted > > -- > To unsubscribe