Sort Word list

if you organize your list into a TABLE, the rows of a table can be sorted alphabetically:

Alphabetize or sort table data in Pages on Mac - Apple Support

note that that article is part of a Pages user guide, and additional steps at creating a table from text are also shown in this guide.

do you mean"

• a directory that has lots of files in it, or

• a Pages Document that contains a list of items to be sorted into a particular order?

if you would like to sort that list, you must organize it into a table, as previously mentioned. Luckily, that is not very difficult.

A table need not have a box around each element or enclosing the entire box, or have any Printable indications that it is a stored internally as a table.

I presented two possibilities, you chose neither.