On Monday 05 September 2005 11:47 am, Ain Vagula wrote:
> David Teague(T-bird acct) wrote:
> > Dan Lewis wrote:
> >> On Saturday 11 June 2005 02:26 pm, Joe Marks wrote:
> >>> On a WindowsXP machine, using 2.0, how can a list be
> >>> made of names, addresses, phone numbers, etc that can
> >>> be sorted so that the names are put in alphabetic
> >>> order? In other words, how to make something similar
> >>> to a "Phone" or to a "address" book.
> >>
> >> There are at least two ways to to do this. 1) Create a
> >> database for this information and sort the records by name. (You
> >> might want to use seperate fields for first and last names so that
> >> the sorting is done by the last name and then first name.)
> >> 2)Enter this information in a Calc spreadsheet. Select all the
> >> rows with information in them. Click the A->Z icon to sort them
> >> alphabetically by the entries of the first row.
> >
> > I had the same question.
> > In MS Word I can go to Table|sort to sort a table. Among the
> > options are alphabetic and numeric sorting. I had hoped for
> > something similar in OO.o Writer, without having to to use other
> > OO.o components. If I understand you correctly, I cannot do that in
> > OO.o Writer (alone).
> >
> > Would someone confirm that indeed this task requires another OO.o
> > component?
>
> No, at least OO.o2.0beta2 can do this, menu Table - Sort.
>
> ain
Two additions. search for "sorting;table rows" in Help. It explains
what to do. Also, remember that it considers the first row to be the
table heading row. It does not sort anything in the first row. You also
need to have all the rows you want to sort highlighted before sorting
them.
Dan
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