I've made a long document in Pages 09 with a glossary at the end. (It's a word processing doc, following the Report format from the template chooser). I've entered terms randomly, as they arose from proofing the document, and I'd like to aphabetize them for readers to easily reference them.
How do I do that?
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), iPhone 4S, iPad 2
Not having a glossary at hand, I copied your post and used the two paragraphs there.
My Glossary words are "I've" and "How"
Make sure each word and its definition are separated by a tab. The definition must be a single paragraph, and end with a single return.
When the glossary has been edited to fit that description:
Select all of the words and definitions
Go Format (menu) > Table > Convert Text to Table
This will give you a two column table, with the words in Column A and their definitions in Column B.
To sort the table:
Open the Inspector and choose the Table Inspector. Select a cell in column A of the table, then choose Sort Ascending from the pop-up menu in the Edit rows & Columns section:
You can use the table just for sorting, then use the same menu path to convert the table back to text, or you could sort the table, then keep the glossary in a table format, adjusting the width of column A to fit the longest word and the width of column B to fit the rest of the page width.
Here (after sorting), I've made those adjustments to the table and added a Header row (using the Headers and Footers controls just above the Edit... section) for a title (Glossary).
Regards,
Barry
Ah, this looks doable. I'm starting with this text in a Glossary already formatted by Pages, though, so I'll have to just select all the text, paste it somewhere not formatted as a Glossary, and sort it like you've outlined (it really, really messed it up when I selected all the text in the glossary format, put it in table format, and sorted.)
But I think this is a workaround that looks like a solution.
Thanks kindly Barry.
How to alphabetize glossary?
