Sorting: Ignoring periods

[Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC]

Fred Ridder wrote:
>>The cause is easy.  Period follow spaces in the standard sort order.
Any entry that includes Heidi followed by a space will sort before an
entry that has Heidi followed by a period (or almost any other
punctuation character). The best fix for your situation is another
matter...<<


If changing the SortOrder or the IgnoreChars building blocks won't help,
does anybody have any ideas on what else I can do - even if it's not a
total fix - because I have a customer that's producing very large
indexes. Finding every out-of-order "Heidi" would be tedious and
eye-straining.

Thanx,
DJ




-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:33 PM
To: Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC
Subject: RE: Sorting: Ignoring periods

The cause is easy.  Period follow spaces in the standard sort order.
Any entry that includes Heidi followed by a space will sort before an
entry that has Heidi followed by a period (or almost any other
punctuation character).  

The best fix for your situation is another matter...
 
 

> Subject: Sorting: Ignoring periods
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:43:32 -0400
> From: Darren.Butler.ctr at Robins.af.mil
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> Hello fellow FrameManiacs,
> 
> 
> 
> In an index of paragraph titles;
> 
> 
> 
> I WANT:
> 
> Heidi.
> 
> Heidi Chronicles.
> 
> Heidi Fleiss.
> 
> Heidi Ho.
> 
> Heidi Klum.
> 
> 
> 
> I GET:
> 
> Heidi Chronicles.
> 
> Heidi Fleiss.
> 
> Heidi Ho.
> 
> Heidi Klum.
> 
> Heidi.
> 
> 
> 
> Do I need to monkey with the SortOrder of the IgnoreChars?
> 
> 
> 
> TIA,
> 
> DJ
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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