Sort Help dbLite can sort on any line you choose to configure your file and labels and reports as you would 01 like to see them. To try out a sort, select [Record Sort] from the main menu then tell the program to sort on 02 Aaa line 1. As you can see, this reorders the way you view each record, making this record #1 03 Aab Now if you resort by line 5, it will return us to the original order of our records. 04 Aac You can enter data in any order you wish and then perform sorts to reorder the files in several 05 Aad ways. You can make reports in alpha order and make your stickers in numerical order. Remember to 06 Aae left align anything you are going to sort on. You can allow spaces between the left margin and the 07 Aaf item to be sorted but they must be consistently the same number of spaces for each line. 08 Aag Also number your records in a consistent coumnar format, i.e. 001, 002, 0001, 0002 and so on, 09 Aah depending on how many records you intend on utiziling. If you will have up to 1001 records then use 10 Aai 0001, 0002 and so on. Since this program only supports 1001 records per file then 4 digits will11 Aaj be all you will be able to handle numerically. Again, experiment and save your work. 12 Aai Finally, since you can additionallysort on the memo field (Alt-W) you can use lines 6-9 as sort fields 13 Aak which will not show on printed labels. If you address something to Marvis Jones and you want a 14 AAl sort by last name put Jones, Marv on line 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 and sort by that field when asked. 15 Last Record
