Table that won't sort correctly

[Art Campbell]

The first thing you should do with any imported or copied Word content is
MIFwash it -- save the Frame file out as MIF, open that, and save as a ,FM
in order to clean all the weird Word characters out.

Try that and see if it helps.


Art Campbell
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On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Steve Rickaby <
srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Title says it all. Material sourced from Word (groan): I suspect gremlin
> characters are messing up sort.
>
> I need to alpha-sort some 60 pp. Each entry starts with '[ref]' in left
> column, where 'ref' is the reference marker. When sorted on col 1, the
> results aren't alpha. Some sorting has taken place, but not a lot. There
> may be gremlins: in many lines, positioning the insert cursor at the start
> of the line and pressing the right arrow key does not advance the cursor
> past the '[' until the right arrow key is pressed again.
>
> Copying one of the offending '<invisible character>[' pairs to the Find
> dialog fails to find the character pair. However, searching for '^[' with
> wildcards on shows that the not-sorted lines do not start with just '[',
> even though that's all that is visible. Equally, lines that *have* sorted
> ok *do* start with just '['.
>
> So: I know why it's not working, but no how to fix it.
>
> Helpful ideas, anyone?
>
> FrameMaker 7.0p757 for Mac.
> --
> Steve
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