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garrylaw

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: Intel I want to sort a portion of a list of book titles and authors by the titles associated with a particular author. When I highlight this portion of my list and then go to "SORT" the entire list is then highlighted. I've never had this problem before so what am I doing wrong?
 
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CyberTaz

Unfortunately I have no idea ‹ I can't force the behavior here & I don't
recall having seen what you're describing. Is your installation of Office
fully updated (11.5.6)? What about Tiger (10.4.11)? If not it could have
some unexpected effects. Does it happen if you restart of the Mac?

Does it occur with just the one file? What happens if you copy the list to a
new sheet/workbook ‹ same behavior?

You might also try running Excel in a new user account.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
 
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John McGhie

I suspect the issue is that Excel has created this as an "Excel List" (a
Table) and it will continue top manage the entire range as a list.

See the Excel help topic "Create a list". To revert to normal behaviour,
you need to remove the list. Which is not exactly intuitive...

1) Select the whole list

2) Use Insert>List to start the List Wizard.

3) A List toolbar will appear

4) At the bottom left of the toolbar there is a drop-down named "List"

5) Drop that down and choose "Remove list manager" from the items.

Hope this helps

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: Intel I want
to sort a portion of a list of book titles and authors by the titles
associated with a particular author. When I highlight this portion of my list
and then go to "SORT" the entire list is then highlighted. I've never had this
problem before so what am I doing wrong?

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