Sort data in LibreOffice Writer

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 5:25 PM Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Good evening.
>
> My wife has created a large number if recipe cards, over a period of
> several years, in a single file. Is there any way to alphabetize them by
> recipe name.
>
> They are formatted as a single page in most cases, however, a few are
> two pages long. The page if formatted for a 4x6 card. There are well
> over 200 of them. I have not seen anything that provides a clue on how
> to sort them.
>
> There is a title line (naturally) and a body but other than the title
> being on a single line at the top of the page they are just a file of
> data records.
>

Here's one way

(First of all, make a backup of your file because you might mess something
up.)

Make sure you used the built-in styles for the titles (Title, or Heading1).
If you didn't, you can copy the existing formatting to the Title or
Heading1 style and apply them after the fact with a little effort.

Then open the Navigator panel (compass icon on the right)

You can see the Title or Headings in the panel and you can select one and
use the tiny arrow icons near the top of the navigator to shuffle the items
around. Put them in whatever order seems good. Moving them in the Navigator
will move them to the respective place in the document.

This isn't the ONLY way to do it, but it will probably be the most
straightforward.

If you were hoping to have LibreOffice do the alphabetization for you, that
is certainly possible, but it might require putting the text in a
spreadsheet or database first.
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