Easiest way to sort a list of names?

[DaviDC.]

I've got a list of names that I want to sort alphabetically. What's the easiest way to do this?

[elmo3]

TextWrangler is easy.

[Don C]

I put lists into a spreadsheet and sort from there. Appleworks or Excel. Either will import a text file. Filemaker would do it too but with more effort getting it set up.

[Paul F.]

Don C beat me to it..

Paste into Excel, select 'em, Tools->Sort.

Copy, and paste it back into your text document.

There might be an easier way.. but that's what comes to mind.

[graylocks]

where is 'sort' in appleworks? i was working with a spreadsheet the other day that i needed to sort but couldn't find that option in appleworks.

opening the file in a neoOffice spreadsheet and sorting from there.

[rgG]

graylocks,
In an Appleworks spreadsheet Calculate>Sort then it gives you a dialog to tell it how to sort. You have to select a range of cells before it will give you the sort option. HTH

[elmo3]

If you have Excel, you also have Word.

Word sorts. Word does calculations, either within a table or outside of a table.

I mentioned TextWrangler because it's free...

[microchip13]

In the terminal

cat FILE | sort

[graylocks]

rgG Wrote:
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> graylocks,
> In an Appleworks spreadsheet Calculate>Sort
> then it gives you a dialog to tell it how to sort.
> You have to select a range of cells before it will
> give you the sort option. HTH


jeez! i can't believe i missed that! senior moments...

thanks!

[DaviDC.]

Thanks guys. I used NeoOffice & figured out how to sort it. I'm gonna look into TextWrangler.