[libreoffice-users] Re: Sorting in Writer

On 5/31/16 2:12 PM, Pat Brown wrote:
> 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

I've got a thought of what might work, but I'd need to see some of the 
data first.

Do you have any way of providing a portion of the doc for everyone to view?


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