At 15:22 28/03/2015 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote:
When sorting, it's not recommended to select a range, rather than a
single cell. Calc (or Excel) will select the range to be sorted by
its own. Selecting a specific range before sorting is only helpful
for very special cases, when automatic selection fails.
FYI: RTFM and study the rule "For sorting, filtering, or using the
Pivot Table, always select only one cell." on page no. 4 of this
official manual:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/6/69/CG4108-PivotTables.pdf
Unfortunately, the chapter of the manual, that specifically deals
with sorting, does not mention this rule. :-/
Interestingly, Chapter 2 does include a couple of useful comments.
The basic sort instructions do indeed say "Select the cells to be
sorted" - with no suggestion that you can just put the cursor into a
single cell and leave Calc to guess the range to be sorted. But
later, under "Quick sort" (using buttons: what the original enquiry
was about), it makes the important proviso "*If the columns in your
spreadsheet have a header with a text format*, you can use a quick
sort" (my emphasis), as well as saying "Select a cell or a cell range
to be sorted."
Brian Barker
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