Microsoft Word: sorting paragraphs

Self-tutoring about Microsoft Word: the tutor mentions an impressive thing it can do.

Yesterday I was working on the references (APA style) for a paper. I finally had them all typed, two pages of them, but I had done them in the order they appear in the paper, rather than in alphabetical order.

In the past I’ve arranged the references manually into alphabetical order. However, there were a lot of them; moreover, I decided that Word likely would have a function to do it: I learned it does.

What I didn’t know is that, on Word’s Home screen, the button in the ribbon (across the top) that has a capital A above a capital Z, then an arrow running down to the right of them, is the Sort button. (It might be just below, and between, the View and Help tabs.) I selected all the references, on two pages, I wanted to alphabetize. Next, I clicked the Sort button, which opens a dialogue. Under Sort by I chose Paragraphs, then beside Type I chose Text. It was miraculous: all 25 references were re-arranged alphabetically.

Source:

support.microsoft.com

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