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1986-12-15
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SORTING THE ELEMENTS ON AN OUTLINE LEVEL
A. To sort the elements on a particular outline level,
choose Sort Outline Level from the Outline menu. This
function allows you to organize elements in much the same
way as a dictionary organizes words (and all children of an
element are moved along with their parent). Choosing this
function brings up an Option Box with three settings that
control the sort:
1. Sort Direction - You can sort elements in either forward or
reverse order. If set to "Increasing", this will sort
elements in the conventional forward order. If set to
"Decreasing", this will sort elements in the opposite of the
forward order.
2. Type Of Sort - If set to "Dictionary", this will sort in the
following order from lowest to highest: punctuation,
numbers, upper and lower case letters without regard for
case, blanks. If set to "Pure Ascii", this will sort in the
following order from lowest to highest: blanks, punctuation,
numbers, upper case letters, lower case letters.
3. Field Number To Sort - PC-OUTLINE sorts based on the
characters following a colon in an element. In the child of
this element, "Sample 1" is the 0th field, "b" is the 1st
Field, "3" is the 2nd field, and "OK" is the 3rd.
a) Sample 1 :b :3 :OK
B. Move the cursor to the children of these elements and try
several sorts for yourself. Try different settings of Sort
Direction, Type of Sort, and Field Number. Watch how the
order of the elements change - keeping track of their
original positions is easy with the words "Sample 1",
"Sample 2", etc. (Note that if you sort by a Field Number
higher than the number of fields of any element in the sort
- 4 or more in this example - then sorting will simply
reverse the order of the elements. Doing it again will
simply reverse the order again, back to their original
places.)
1. Sample 1 :b :3 :OK
2. Sample 2 :c :41 :OK
3. Sample 3 :d :3 :OK
4. Sample 4 :e :19 :OK
5. Sample 5 :a :7 :OK