1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3 4<!-- 5*********************************************************************** 6 * 7 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8 * 9 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10 * 11 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12 * 13 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14 * 15 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18 * 19 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24 * 25 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29 * 30 ************************************************************************ 31 --> 32 33 34<meta> 35 <topic id="textscalcguidedatabase_sortxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36 <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Sorting Data </title> 37 <filename>/text/scalc/guide/database_sort.xhp</filename> 38 </topic> 39 </meta> 40 <body> 41<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150767"><bookmark_value>database ranges; sorting</bookmark_value> 42 <bookmark_value>sorting; database ranges</bookmark_value> 43 <bookmark_value>data;sorting in databases</bookmark_value> 44</bookmark> 45<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3150767" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" 46 oldref="44"><variable id="database_sort"><link href="text/scalc/guide/database_sort.xhp" name="Sorting Database Ranges">Sorting Data</link> 47</variable></paragraph> 48 <list type="ordered"> 49 <listitem> 50 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145751" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="45">Click in a database range.</paragraph> 51 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id121020081121549" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">If you select a range of cells, only these cells will get sorted. If you just click one cell without selecting, then the whole database range will get sorted.</paragraph> 52 </listitem> 53 <listitem> 54 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10635" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Data - Sort</item>.</paragraph> 55 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id121020081121547" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">The range of cells that will get sorted is shown in inverted colors.</paragraph> 56 </listitem> 57 <listitem> 58 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10645" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Select the sort options that you want.</paragraph> 59 </listitem> 60 <listitem> 61 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN1063D" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph> 62 </listitem> 63 </list> 64 <section id="relatedtopics"> 65 <embed href="text/scalc/guide/database_define.xhp#database_define"/> 66 <embed href="text/scalc/guide/database_filter.xhp#database_filter"/> 67 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1846980" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW"><link href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Defining_a_Data_Range">Wiki page about defining a data range</link></paragraph> 68 </section> 69 </body> 70</helpdocument>