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Maybe - try this:<br />
1.Click SORT<br />
2.In SORT TEXT dialog change SORT BY from PARAGRAPH to FIELD.<br />
3.In the same dialog, click OPTION button.<br />
4.In SORT OPTIONS dialog, change SEPARATE FIELDS AT panel OTHER field to quotation mark.<br />
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Not sure if that will work with a starting and ending quote though....<br />
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Maybe - try this:
1.Click SORT
2.In SORT TEXT dialog change SORT BY from PARAGRAPH to FIELD.
3.In the same dialog, click OPTION button.
4.In SORT OPTIONS dialog, change SEPARATE FIELDS AT panel OTHER field to quotation mark.

Not sure if that will work with a starting and ending quote though....



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It's a suitable workaround. &nbsp;Too bad there is not a way to specify characters to ignore...but this one worked
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It's a suitable workaround.  Too bad there is not a way to specify characters to ignore...but this one worked

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When I sort paragraphs with quotated words, it doesn't sort correctly. &nbsp;Example: &nbsp;&quot;Aardvark&quot; should come before &quot;Aardvark mother&quot;, but it doesn't as a space comes alphabetically before a quotaion mark. It also doesn't matter if the I use straight quotes versus smart quotes.<br />
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I want to know if there is a setting to specify sorting characteristics. &nbsp;Thanks!
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When I sort paragraphs with quotated words, it doesn't sort correctly.  Example:  "Aardvark" should come before "Aardvark mother", but it doesn't as a space comes alphabetically before a quotaion mark. It also doesn't matter if the I use straight quotes versus smart quotes.

I want to know if there is a setting to specify sorting characteristics.  Thanks!

Word 2010 sorting paragraphs

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