{"id":48277,"date":"2024-11-02T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48277"},"modified":"2024-11-02T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T15:33:12","slug":"microsoft-word-sorting-paragraphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/microsoft-word-sorting-paragraphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Word: sorting paragraphs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Microsoft Word: the tutor mentions an impressive thing it can do.<\/h2>\nYesterday 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.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the past I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat I didn&#8217;t know is that, on Word&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/sort-a-list-alphabetically-in-word-4d27ca57-6d64-4229-82f8-a0a1a805d494#:~:text=Select%20the%20list%20you%20want,Descending%20(Z%20to%20A).\">support.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/microsoft-word-sorting-paragraphs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Word: sorting paragraphs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[3434],"class_list":["post-48277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-word","tag-sort-button"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48277"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48287,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48277\/revisions\/48287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}