IвЂ™ve sorted by Paragraph, Text, and in Ascending Order here, and to be honest, thatвЂ™s what I always do. You can even specify whether what youвЂ™re sorting has a header row (IвЂ™m not sure why youвЂ™d want to do that, as you can just exclude the header row when youвЂ™re doing the highlighting, but I suppose it would be useful if you realise youвЂ™ve accidentally highlighted the headers too). There are all sorts of ways in which you can order the text, which are very similar to the ways you can order text and numbers in Excel. Press the A-Z button and up pops a dialogue box. See that little button youвЂ™ve never even seen before, next to the paragraph mark? Then, make sure youвЂ™ve got the Home tab at the front. How can we resolve this without swapping all the lines around?ДЇirst, highlight all the text you want to alphabetise. So, a lovely list of books but not in order by the authorsвЂ™ surnames. *A very few referencing systems ask for the bibliography to be in the order in which the references appear in the text.

So, youвЂ™ve got your bibliography, and youвЂ™ve been very good and followed the rules for setting it out (IвЂ™ve used Harvard method here) but itвЂ™s not in alphabetical order by author surname, and, except in certain cases,* it really should be. I know the quick and easy way to do this вЂ“ but I donвЂ™t think a lot of people know that you can do this! I was inspired to write this post after having to put yet another studentвЂ™s bibliography into alphabetical order.

Wordbook alphabetical