Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 961
Table needs ability to sort rows by column headings
Last modified: 2003-12-06 14:52:34 UTC
Currently, Writer doesn't have the ability to sort a table by row. Wordperfect 9 and Microsoft Word 2000 does have this ability. I would suggest a right-click action in a table should have a sort option. Then you would be prompted for which columns to sort by and which order (ascending/descending). It should prompt for 3 columns and whether or not they're ascending or descending. The 3 columns are primary, secondary and tertiary. When sorting the rows, the primary column should take precedence over the secondary column and the secondary column should have precedence over the tertiary column. The secondary and tertiary columns should be optional. If the table has only 1 column, it should only prompt for a single primary column. If the table has 2 columns, it should only prompt for a primary and secondary colunm.
Reassigned to Falko.
This functionality is already there, but you have to select the entire table first (then it is in Tools/Sort). So in principle the issue should be closed as invalid, but it might be worth considering if the functionality is too difficult to find. Would it be a possibility to make the function available also if the cursor is in a table, but nothing is selected (the sorting function should then default to sort the entire table)? Probably it is also a good idea to include it in the context menu.
Will get back to this issue later. Thx. for submittance.
changing QA contact from bugs@ to issues@
The most intuitive approach would be: While a column in a table (or some cells of a column of a table) is selected, rightclicking the selected area brings up the context menu with a menu item 'Sort' which has 2 submenus: 'Ascendent' and 'Descendent', where clicking one of these submenu items sorts the (whole respectively the rows with the selected cells) table by the selectd column.
Writer can sort by row: Select the desired row(s) and go to "Tools -sort" and change "Direction" from "Rows" to "Columns"
closed