Re: [libreoffice-users] Sorting in Writer

       So glad you found what will work for you; thanks for letting me know.



From: Pat Brown <mistyhaven@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Sorting in Writer
To: anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>


Thanks for this. What Piet showed me was like running a macro but manually,
step by step. It worked fine for what I wanted but I think I will write and
save a macro to automate the process in the future. What he suggested was
really logical once I started to think it through



On 3 June 2016 at 02:33, anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com> wrote:

       Well, I've done this for any number of lists; sorted in various ways
> ...
>           once it's done, it's much easier to locate what you have & much
> easier to maintain the list.
>
>        The manual method is somewhat quicker if you use (1) the 'find' to
> sort;
>           (2) maybe doing a section at a time.
>
>        There are numerous programs that supposedly will do this for you;
>            how they operate or how they would know where to place what, I
> haven't the foggiest ...
>           some can be located through Gizmo's
> http://www.techsupportalert.com/
>
>        Hoping this helps,
>
>
>
> From: Pat Brown <mistyhaven@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, May 31, 2016 at 3:12 PM
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Sorting in Writer
> To: Libre Office <users@global.libreoffice.org>
>
>
> 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

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