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Old July 4th, 2006, 09:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
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How do I enter variable items to sort? such as Book, author, date, comments,
etc.
across, down or how? Sorry I am so dumb about this
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Old July 4th, 2006, 10:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
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Whatever you want to be able to sort by, put in a separate column. You can
sort by up to three columns (for example, Last Name, then First Name within
Last Name, then book title within a given Last Name/First Name combination,
etc.).

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How do I enter variable items to sort? such as Book, author, date,

comments,
etc.
across, down or how? Sorry I am so dumb about this
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Louisa


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Old July 4th, 2006, 10:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
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First, I'd advise you to set this up in Excel instead of Word, because
it has better sorting facilities.

If you must do this in Word, set up a table with as many columns as
there are pieces of information about a single book. Put all the
information about one book into one row of the table. Then start
another row (by pressing the Tab key at the end of the last cell) to
add another book.

(Advice: Use separate columns for the author's first name and last
name, or at least enter them as "last name, first name" so you can
sort on the last names.)

To do the sort, put the cursor anywhere inside the table, go to the
Table menu, and select Sort. In the dialog that appears, choose which
column to sort.

(Hint: If you use the first row of the table for the column titles,
and in the dialog you click the "Header row" item at the bottom, then
the top part of the dialog will show the titles of the columns instead
of "Column 1", "Column 2", etc.)

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How do I enter variable items to sort? such as Book, author, date, comments,
etc.
across, down or how? Sorry I am so dumb about this

 




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