how to alphabetize bibliography on page

Unlike MS Word, which will automatically alphabetize your reference/citations if organized in individual paragraphs — Pages is no Word clone, and alphabetizing your bibliography is a manual process by rearrangement.

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HI e-art,

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Should you wish to try sorting the bibliography on your own, though, here's a method using Numbers to do the actual sort. It requires that your bibliography entries each be in a separate paragraph, and constitute the whole paragraph (ie. the paragraph must end with a return character, and may contain NO other return character).

Here's a sample, ordered as entered, and selected for copying.:

Select the list and copy.

Open a new Numbers document using one of the Blank templates.

Click once on sell B2 and Paste.

Move the mouse pointe onto the column reference tab for column B, and click on the white v that appears (shown below in Black, which it changes to when clicked). Choose Sort Ascending from the menu.

Select all of column B (excluding the empty Header row) and Copy. Click the T button above the workspace to insert a text box on the sheet. Click the word "Text" in the box and Paste. (This step converts the set of cells copied from the table—which would paste into Pages as a single column Table—to a list in plain text—which will paste into Pages as a set of paragraphs.

Select all of the list in the text box, Copy.

Return to your Pages document click on the location to receive the list, and Paste.

Regards,

Barry