[X4U] Pages Question

[Ed Gould]

Daly:

Strange I have not run into that and I did ask two friends and they  
thought it wasn't possible. I am in a hurry and I will look at it  
when I get back. Thanks and looking forward to using it.

Ed

On Jan 24, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Daly Jessup wrote:

>> I have a problem with Pages and I am not sure how to solve it and  
>> I thought maybe there are some experts here that could help me out.
>>
>> I have a 1 Page Pages document which contains a lot of medical  
>> information on it. The part that that I really need some help with  
>> is medications. I have a 2 column table which contains (my list of  
>> medications (currently around 16). This list doesn't change a lot  
>> but lets say every two months . The entry in each box is a  
>> medication. The problem has arisen that the doctors office keeps  
>> the meds in alpha sequence and it takes for ever to go through the  
>> list. Is there away to sort say on the first 5 characters (name of  
>> med) ?
>>
>> I know I can do it manually but having to do this every two months  
>> is not a chore I want to do. Can pages be made to sort the  
>> columns, so the medications are in reasonably close alpa sequence?
>> It would seem straight forward that one should be able to do. I am  
>> pretty sure WP can do it (I will have to admit I have not tried it  
>> but somewhere back in the mists they had a facility to do so.
>
> Ed,
> This is covered nicely in Pages Help, which would be faster than  
> waiting for the list to answer.
>
> But anyway, click in any data cell in your table. Open the  
> Inspector, go to the Table tab.
> In the menu next to "Edit Rows and Columns," choose "Sort  
> ascending" or "Sort Descending," as you prefer.
>
> Another thing you can do, if you can make it work (which I can't)  
> is to make your table in Numbers and save the Numbers file. Then  
> select the table in Numbers and paste it into your Pages document  
> and save the Pages document. Then when you change the table in  
> Numbers (and save) supposedly you can then select the pasted table  
> in Pages, and a "Refresh" button is supposed to come up, which will  
> update the table in Pages.
>
> (Does anyone get that "Refresh" button when selecting a linked  
> table in Pages?)
>
> Or, you could make the whole document in Numbers, putting your text  
> into text boxes, and keeping your meds data in a Numbers table,  
> where you can do all kinds of spreadsheet-type operations on it.
>
> But if all you need is a simple sort, it's right there in Pages, in  
> the Table inspector.
>
> Daly
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