Drew Jensen wrote:
Also, in the Options tab for the Sort dialog box there is a choice to
"Enable natural sort." I don't know what that means, and the Help file
says nothing about it. Does anyone know what this option does?
natural sorting...ah, well there is a subject.
There is the alphabet and there there is ASCII...but nothing works
like an example.
Enter the following values in a column
a1
a100
a31
a2
a10
Now sort those values - without Natural Sorting being enabled:
a1
a10
a100
a2
a31
That is the values sorted by ASCII...
Sort again but this time with "Enable Natural Sorting" ticked.
a1
a2
a10
a31
a100
That is Alphabetical..
HTH
Drew
OK, I give up. Where do you find "Enable Natural Sorting" as I seem
to have nothing of the sort. Not in TOOLS-OPTIONS nor in the
drop-down DATA-SORT window.
Using Win XP Pro and OOo v3.1.
Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA
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