So glad you found what will work for you; thanks for letting me know.
From: Pat Brown <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Sorting in Writer To: anne-ology <[email protected]> Thanks for this. What Piet showed me was like running a macro but manually, step by step. It worked fine for what I wanted but I think I will write and save a macro to automate the process in the future. What he suggested was really logical once I started to think it through On 3 June 2016 at 02:33, anne-ology <[email protected]> wrote: Well, I've done this for any number of lists; sorted in various ways > ... > once it's done, it's much easier to locate what you have & much > easier to maintain the list. > > The manual method is somewhat quicker if you use (1) the 'find' to > sort; > (2) maybe doing a section at a time. > > There are numerous programs that supposedly will do this for you; > how they operate or how they would know where to place what, I > haven't the foggiest ... > some can be located through Gizmo's > http://www.techsupportalert.com/ > > Hoping this helps, > > > > From: Pat Brown <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, May 31, 2016 at 3:12 PM > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Sorting in Writer > To: Libre Office <[email protected]> > > > I received a document which, essentially is a document of song lyrics. > However, they were typed in at random, as they were received. I now want to > sort the songs by song title and can't figure a way to do this. The format > is the following: > The song title, the artist, the lyrics. Each line is essentially a new > paragraph so I cannot sort by paragraph. I need some way of marking the > beginning and the ending of each song, having the contents between these > two marks recognised as a unit, and then sorting these units. Does anyone > have any ideas, without having to select each song, cutting it and then > pasting it in its correct position alphabetically > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
