Re: Sorting Data

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 19:01 -0700, Charles Van deZande wrote:
> I'm a newby.  I have a large file consisting of many fields and many
> records.  I want to sort the records according to one of the fields.
> This is very easy to do in Excel, but I cannot figure out how to do it
> in Gnumeric.  This must be an easy question because I cannot find a
> similar question in your discussion list.

Select the area you want to sort.
Select Data->Sort
Complete the sort specification. Specifically make sure that the column
(?) you want to sort by is the first column to sort.
Click ok 

Andreas

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Andreas J. Guelzow
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