There is no built-in sort function in Pages, but you can easily sort cells in tables. To sort a list of text, you can copy and paste the list into a table, sort it, and then copy it back out. The trick is to merge the data into a single cell before copying back out of the table.

One thing to note, though, is that Word can only handle sorting a single level list. If you sort a list with multiple levels, it still sorts every line alphabetically and can rearrange your whole list. RELATED: How to Create and Work with Multilevel Lists in Microsoft Word. First, select the text that you want to sort. Chronology in Microsoft Word is convenient when it comes to organizing your documents. Thankfully, you don't have to manually edit the document to put things in alphabetical order! This video shows you how to do it in a few clicks. Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 both allow you to sort lists of words alphabetically. The following instructions apply to both versions of Word, with the exceptions noted.

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Video Transcript: Let's say you've got a list and you want to sort it. You want to do that in Pages. Now you'd think there would be some option to do that in Pages but there's not. There's not a way to do it in TextEdit either. You can use a third party app like TextWrangler. You can get that in the Mac App Store and you can easily sort text there. You can also, of course, sort in Numbers, a spreadsheet. That's one of the primary things it does. But let's say you want to keep it simple. You want to do it in Pages. You've just got this list here. There is a way to do it. You're going to have to use Tables inside of Pages to do it in a similar way that you would do it in Numbers. But you don't have to leave the text in a table. So let's look at how you would do it.The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to Select All and then I'm going to Copy. Then I'm going to click before the list there because I'm going to insert a table. I don't want to replace this text with a table. I want to insert a new table just before it. This is going to be a temporary table. I'm going to delete it when I'm done.I'm going to use the totally blank template there. So no header columns or rows. I'm also going to click here and reduce the number of columns to one. Then I can shrink this so it's pretty small. I'm also going to set it here under Format, Arrange to No Wrap so I can basically move it over here and it won't interfere with the stuff that's there. I'm going to click in the first cell and I'm going to Paste. So remember I've copied all these names here. I'm going to Edit, Paste and now it populates this table here. You can see it becomes a very long table. Go all the way to the bottom of it and it'll stay on the first page but it is actually, you can see there it's kind of stops working after the first page. But it's all there. All one thousand cells.So now sorting is fairly trivial. I click on the header here, A, and I click Sort Ascending. It's going to sort them all in ascending order. Great! Now I've got it all sorted. So I'm going to click on the first cell here and I'm going to Select All again. It's going to select all of the cells. Now here's where a lot of people get tripped up when trying to do this. If you copied this and then try to paste it, it's going to copy all the cells. When you paste it, it's going to create a new table and paste all the cells into it.You just want to copy it as text. So the trick is to go to Format and under Table there's a Merge Cells option. Select that and it merges all those cells into one big cell. You can see now I've got all this text in cell one. So I can select it. I'm actually going to do another Select All after I put the cursor in there. Now it's going to select it all. Just one big block of text in cell A1. I'm going to copy.Now at this point let's select the Table here. The simplest way to do that is to click this little circle here. I'm going to Delete the table. I'm also going to Select All again and hit Delete to delete it. Remember I've copied the alphabetized list from the cell. So now if I Paste it I get the list pasted in alphabetized. So that's how you can alphabetize a list in Pages.If this is a list inside of a larger document, just make sure instead of selecting All you only select what you need, create the table. Do all the same steps and then select what you want to replace and paste over it. Or if you want to simplify things you can always just copy the list, create a quick new Pages document. Do the alphabetizing there and when you're finished, like here, I can Select All again, Copy and Paste back in my regular document. I like to do this sometimes to be safe. To make sure I don't make a mistake and Select All and Delete and get rid of all the rest of the text too.

Microsoft Word has some handy and straightforward sorting tools. To do a simple sort, select the text or table you would like to sort, then choose HOME or TABLE TOOLS/LAYOUT then SORT , and enter your sort criteria.

In this post, however, we go beyond the basics and offer five sorting tricks that take sorting to a new level. So, before going and copying your data into an Excel table to sort it, check out some of these great sorting techniques in Word 2010.

1. Sorting Isn’t Just for Tables

You can sort paragraphs as well. In fact, most of the sorting tricks (such as by date, number, or column) can be done with paragraphs and lists as well. In our instructions below, we’ve indicated what you can do with paragraphs and how.

2. Manually Sorting Rows and Paragraphs

If you have some rows that are in the wrong place within the table, or a paragraph or more that’s in the wrong area of the document, you can easily move them up or down within the document.

1. Select the row(s) or paragraph(s) you want to move.
2. To move the row(s) or paragraph(s) up or down, press <Shift-Alt-> or <Shift-Alt->.

3. Sort by Numbers and Dates

In Word 2010, there are many sorting options in the SORT/SORT TEXT box.

To sort a table or paragraph using these tools, do the following steps:

1. If you’re sorting a table, in the SORT BY field, choose a column heading from the drop-down list.
• If your table has a header row, for the MY LIST HAS option select HEADER ROW. Otherwise, choose NO HEADER ROW.
• If there are no column headings in the table, the drop-down menu will list them as Column 1,Column 2, etc.
• If you’re sorting paragraphs or lists, the SORT BY options are by PARAGRAPH or by FIELD 1, FIELD 2, and so on.
2. Once you decide on the SORT BY option, choose to sort the table by the following TYPES:
• NUMBER to sort by numeric value (Note: Word searches the first words in a paragraph for the first isolated number. For instance, it will count the first instance of “123” as a number, but not “A123”.)
• DATE to sort according to date and time (Note: Text dates (ie. August 30, 2012) have to be at the beginning of a paragraph, but numerical formats (ie. 08/30/2012) don’t.).
3. To set up a second and third-level sort criteria, enter them in the THEN BY fields.
4. [Click] OK.

4. Sort Just One Column

When you select an entire table, all the rows will change when the table is sorted. There are a couple of ways to just change the order of one column. Select the entire column you wish to sort using, before [Clicking] SORT. Or, after [Clicking] SORT, choose OPTIONS, SORT COLUMN ONLY.

5. Sorting Paragraphs

In Word, the SORT function isn’t limited to tables. In a TechRepublic article, IT consultant Susan Harkins explains how to rearrange the paragraphs of a document that’s often easier than cutting and pasting paragraphs into the right places. She recommends numbering each paragraph, and then using the SORT function and SORT BY number to put them in the right order.

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