Sorting text

Thanks for trying. In the days when I used MS Word I recall a straightforward fu cation where you could select the word used to sort a list.

Whatever happened to that sort of method.

Even converting a table to text now involves importing to Text Edit first, then converting to text there and then copying and pasting back into the Pages doc.

Im trying to produce an alphabetical list of references where the first word is key. I think I’m going to have to assemble them in the right order as I build them. At least in a table I can pick up a whole row and reposition it to another row.

Thanks but my sorting requirement is rather different to just finding one word. I need to put a list of 30-40 references in alphabetical order using the first word for that ordering.

I hadn’t realised that you can use Numbers type equations in a Pages table. That would be handy at some point.

Also I can’t see a way to convert text to a table in Pages, and the only way I have found to go the other way is to copy the table to Text Editor, use its convert feature and then copy all the resulting paragraphs back to Pages.

Am I missing some features?

J

Thanks Yellowbox, that does indeed work!

I assume the sort is based on the first word, which in my case is what is wanted (author's surname), but could one change the sorting criteria if needed?

Also, as mentioned earlier, how does one convert text, broken up into paragraphs, to a table? :)

Sure, here is a grab from a section of the reference list that I have now sorted by moving table rows individually around.