sort annotated bibliography

[tablet user]

I am trying to create an annotated bibliography that I can have word
automatically sort alphabetically. The trouble is that it recognizes the
annotation as a seperate paragraph and does not keep it with the citation
(obviously). Is there a way to do this that hasn't occured to me? I need a
line of blank space between the citation and the annotation, but need a way
to make word only reconize the first letter of the citation and ignore the
first letter of the annotation when sorting the list alphabetically. I
thought of making a table and putting each citation + annotation in its own
column, but a) I need the table lines to be invisible and b) when I did that
and sorted it with blank columns, it always put the citations at the bottom
with the blank colums at the top, which is no good...the blank columns need
to stay at the bottom for when I enter more citations.

Thanks!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The idea of a borderless table is not a bad solution. But why do you need to
preserve blank rows? You can always add a new row to a table by just tabbing
out of the last row.

Another approach would be to assign an outline level (at least temporarily)
to the citation style. When you view the bibliography in Outline view with
Body Text hidden, you can sort the "headings," and the associated body text
will follow.

 

[tablet user]

Good point...I guess I don't need to preserve the blank rows but can add them
as I go. So I think I'll do it that way although I can't figure out how to
male invisible borders or what you called a "borderless table." Any
suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A quick way to remove borders from any table is to press Ctrl+Alt+U. Or you
can select the table and go to Format | Borders and Shading and choose None
(or use the No Border button on the Borders flyout palette on the Formatting
or Tables and Borders toolbar). If you don't want any tables in a given
document to have borders, select Table Normal as the default Table
AutoFormat for the document (or template): in the Table | Table AutoFormat
dialog, choose Table Normal and then click Default...