Sorting Russian Word Lists in MS Word

[Brewer, Michael]

Tony, 

Have you used the Word Help and followed the directions for adding other
languages for the sort function? (type "sort" into help and it will come
up). 

mb


Michael Brewer
Slavic Studies, German Studies & Media Arts Librarian
University of Arizona Library A210
1510 E. University
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721
Voice: 520.307.2771
Fax: 520.621.9733
brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu

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Subject: [SEELANGS] Sorting Russian Word Lists in MS Word

A question for the SEELANGS community that's on a somewhat more earthly
and concrete level than many recent postings...

I've been trying to use the sort function in MS Word (on a PC) for list
of Russian words.

The results I achieve are helpful, but not optimal.  What happens is
that I get a sort that is *generally* correct, but which also contains
numerous errors.  Typically, there are a bunch of words that get put at
the top of the list which are totally out of place (and in no particular
order).  The rest of the words are by and large sorted correctly at
least by first letter, usually more.  But I also end up with far too
many words within each of these groups that are out of place, meaning
that I have to sort these words manually.

Ideally, I would like for this tool to work as well in Russian as it
does in English.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and, if so, do you know of a
solution or workaround?  I tried cutting and pasting the list into MS
Excel, thinking that the sort function might work better there, but
alas, the results are the same.

Thanks,
Tony Vanchu

Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu
Director, JSC Language Education Center
TechTrans International, Inc.
NASA Johnson Space Center
Houston, TX
Phone:  (281) 483-0644
Fax:  (281) 483-4050

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