Sorting lists

[Marsh]

Following on from an earlier post from Hippy on sorting lists in Word documents�.  If your list looks like this, announce, proclaim, disclose, declare, etc Sort doesn't work for me.  If the list goes
announce
proclaim
disclose
declare  
etc    it does.
Is there an easy way of converting the first format to the second?  I've tried Find/Replace but if I try to enter a line break it treats it as a Find instruction.  Any ideas, anyone?

[Elfin]

I just had a go at this and can do it using Find & Replace (I'm using XP).

Go to the Find and Replace window and select the Replace tab.  In the Find field, type the comma followed by a space.  Now click into the Replace field, ready for the next bit...

Then click on the More>> button at the bottom.  Right at the bottom there is a button called Special.  Click that and choose Manual Line Break.  That will insert something that looks like ^I in the Replace field (presumably the code for a hard return).

Now click the Replace button to see if it works on one line and if it does what you want, click Replace All.

Bingo.

[Marsh]

That's great! Thanks ever so much.