Playing Favourites

Or more correctly "Playback Favorites", which is a subtle way of getting both spellings into a search engine!

On the image below you will see that I have used Change Image to set a red heart alongside the HeaderFooter command in the Headers sub-menu.

I have set a Red Heart alongside my favourite command in each sub-menu.

It makes those commands easy to spot.

By "favorite" I mean the most common function used, the one which I am most likely to want to target with the mouse.

Sorting paragraphs of text

That completes a quick look at some of the macros available for sorting paragraphs of text.

Why is this better than choosing Table, Sort from Word's menu?

If you have a small set of paragraphs to set, and you want to use each paragraph as a sort key, I'd suggest you use Table, Sort from Word's menu! It is what i do in that case.

But if you want to use only the First word of each paragraph as a sort key, rather than the Entire paragraph, you'll want to use Under's macros.

If you want to sort a mass of paragraphs isolated by intervening tables, you'll want to use Under's macros. And here you have a choice of sorting the sets of paragraphs as a complete Block, or as Separate chunks.

On top of that, Under's intelligent selection kicks in - if you haven't selected any text, Under will assume that you want to sort all paragraphs within the current document.

ParagraphSortSeparateEntireKeyDescending

Under.zip (XSort) " ParagraphSortSeparateEntireKeyDescending " - Sort paragraphs of a selection in descending sequence when the selection spans intervening tables.

Open a new document and type in a few paragraphs, insert a small table, repeat the process until you have something like this:

Choose (Under) Sort, Paragraphs, ParagraphSortSeparateEntireKeyDescending and note that the document is sorted by paragraphs treating the paragraphs as separate chunks of data between each table:

Paragraphs 2 and 1 are now in descending sequence, as are paragraphs 14, 13; 26, 25 and so on.

ParagraphSortBlockEntireKeyDescending

Under.zip (XSort) " ParagraphSortBlockEntireKeyDescending " - Sort paragraphs of a selection in ascending sequence when the selection spans intervening tables.

Open a new document and type in a few paragraphs, insert a small table, repeat the process until you have something like this:

Select all text between and including Para 2 and Para 7; that is, select all but the first and last paragraphs.

Choose (Under) Sort, Paragraphs, ParagraphSortBlockEntireKeyDescending and note that the document is sorted by paragraphs across the entire selection: