uncledewey Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 (edited) I have a document that each line starts with about ten characters and then tab to alphabetic characters. I wish to sort using the characters after the tab, but can't seem to figure out how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks, Dewey Edited June 9, 2010 by uncledewey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheky Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 1) Highlight all your text2) Select insert --> table3) Select Convert text to table4) Under Table Tools --> Layout: Select 'Sort'5) Sort column 26) convert that table back to text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncledewey Posted June 9, 2010 Author Share Posted June 9, 2010 (edited) With just a little change it worked great. Never would have gotten there without your help!!!! Thanks a bunch. Dewey1) Highlight all your text2) Select insert --> table3) Select Convert text to table4) Under Table Tools --> Layout: Select 'Sort'5) Sort column 26) convert that table back to text Edited June 9, 2010 by uncledewey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncledewey Posted June 9, 2010 Author Share Posted June 9, 2010 (edited) With just a little change it worked great. Never would have gotten there without your help!!!! Thanks a bunch. Dewey1) Highlight all your text2) Select insert --> table3) Select Convert text to table4) Under Table Tools --> Layout: Select 'Sort'5) Sort column 26) convert that table back to text Edited June 9, 2010 by uncledewey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jilsurya Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 In computer science and mathematics, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list in a certain order. The most-used orders are numerical order and lexicographical order. Efficient sorting is important to optimizing the use of other algorithms (such as search and merge algorithms) that require sorted lists to work correctly; it is also often useful for canonicalizing data and for producing human-readable output. More formally, the output must satisfy two conditions: 1. The output is in nondecreasing order (each element is no smaller than the previous element according to the desired total order); 2. The output is a permutation, or reordering, of the input.Since the dawn of computing, the sorting problem has attracted a great deal of research, perhaps due to the complexity of solving it efficiently despite its simple, familiar statement.================================================ Composite Doors | Composite Front Doors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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