Have you ever needed to sort table data in word and had to resort to copying and pasting your data from Word to Excel, sorting the data in Excel and then copying the sorted data from Excel back to word. Phew! With Word 2007, you can sort table data in Microsoft Word like you can in Microsoft Excel. You use the Sort command located in the Data group (in the layout tab). This saves you the time spent you would usually spend in the excel-word maneuver. Here, follow the directions in the section below to save you the headache and time.
a) Download and open the sort document
b) Select all the rows except the heading row.
c) Click the Layout tab to activate it.
d) In the Data Group, click on Sort
e) From the Sort By List, select Column 2
f) Select Ascending (radio button) to sort in alphabetical order going down
g) From the Then By List, select [none]
h) Then click, Ok
Very simple right? Now you can sort table data in Microsoft Word.