Microsoft Office Word is not designed to streamline user input. However, in text documents, it is often necessary to create alphabetical lists, so a function for sorting strings has been added to the program. Using it is quite simple, and it is unlikely that such sorting will cause difficulty even for a novice Word user.
It is necessary
Word processor Microsoft Office Word 2007 or 2010
Instructions
Step 1
Start your word processor. If you want to add an alphabetical list to an existing document, load it and position the cursor in the desired place in the text. Keep in mind that the list will be created as a separate paragraph of text, that is, you need to provide for its separation from the previous and subsequent fragments of the document.
Step 2
Enter all the lines in the list, ignoring the correct order at this stage. The only thing that matters now is to end each line of the list by entering a "carriage return" character, i.e. by pressing the Enter key.
Step 3
Select all the lines in the list and open the text sorting settings dialog box. To call it, there is a button with the image of the letters "A" and "I" placed one above the other and an arrow pointing down. Moved this button to the Paragraph command group of the Home tab in the Word menu.
Step 4
In the field under the inscription "First by" the default value is set to "paragraphs" - leave it unchanged. In the adjacent drop-down list - "Type" - the default value should be changed only if the lines contain dates or numbers. To the right of this list, there are two more fields that specify the direction of sorting - "ascending" and "descending" - select the desired option by clicking the corresponding checkbox.
Step 5
If the selected fragment of the document, in addition to the list lines themselves, also includes its title, check the box next to the inscription "with a title line" at the bottom of the settings window.
Step 6
By default, sorting is performed case-insensitively, and if you want lines beginning with uppercase letters and then with lowercase letters in the list first, open the additional sorting settings. For this, the "Parameters" button is placed in the basic settings window. Check the box "case sensitive" and close the window by clicking on the OK button.
Step 7
Click OK and in the basic sorting settings window, after which the word processor will arrange the lines of the list in alphabetical order.
