![]() Once you have selected the column, click on the LAYOUT contextual tab at the top and then click on the Sort button. Step 1: Click and select the column that you want to be sorted. So, let’s see how we can sort the Sl No column alone in ascending order, keeping the other 2 columns intact. If you look at the resultant table in the section above, you can see that even though the table was sorted perfectly based on the Sales Commission column, the Sl No column also got sorted, which is not desirable. ![]() Section 2: How to Sort Only a Single Column in a Table Step 3: Viola! You now have your desired results, you can easily analyse the data from now on. Once you are all done, hit the OK button. Now, choose the radio button corresponding to the Ascending or Descending order sorting. Hence I have chosen the same from the Sort by dropdown menu.īy default, the type of the column would be selected from the Type dropdown menu. Here, in the example, I want the Sales Commission column to be my sorting criterion. Now that you have mentioned that there is a header row in your table, the header row will not be touched when the sorting happens.Īs next, under the Sort by section, firstly choose the column based on which you want the sorting to happen. For that, at the bottom of the Sort window, choose the radio button corresponding to the option Header row under the section My list has. Step 2: On the Sort window, firstly you need to specify that your table has a header row. Now under the Data section of the LAYOUT tab, click on the button named Sort. Under the Table Tools tab, there will be 2 sub-tabs namely DESIGN and LAYOUT. Once you select the table, at the top ribbon, a contextual tab named Table Tools will become visible. Once located, click on the table selector icon to select the whole table. Step 1: Firstly hover over the table to find the Table Selector icon at the top left corner of the table. Let’s say you have the following table and you need to sort the table based on the Sales Commission column, in descending order such that the person who earned the highest commission should come first in the table. Section 1: How to Sort the Whole Table Based on a Single Column ![]() Read on, to learn how you can easily sort the data inside tables in Microsoft Word with some quick and simple steps. Well, don’t even think about resorting to that way! When Word itself has an inbuilt functionality to sort its tables, why do you have to rely on Excel to get the Word sorting done? One way of sorting the data inside a Word table would be to take the data to Excel, do the sorting from Excel, and then bring the sorted table back to Word.
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