Let’s say you’ve got a bulleted or numbered list in Word (confirmed in 2010 & 2013, not tested in earlier versions) and the items are currently in this order:
Straub
King
Koontz
Lee
Ketchum
Later you decide that you’d like to have them in a different order and if that order isn’t alphabetical (which is available via a button in the ribbon,) you’re probably going to use copy/paste. Here’s a better way.
Put your cursor on the item you’d like to move (you don’t even have to highlight it,) and use SHIFT-ALT-UP/DOWN ARROWS to move the item up or down in the list.
Copy and past my example list into Word and alphabetize this list to give it a try.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Let’s say you’ve got a bulleted or numbered list in Word (confirmed in 2010 & 2013, not tested in earlier versions) and the items are currently in this order: