Sorting Tabular Data - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

In the Other rows section, select a color to apply to rows, then indicate how frequently you
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want the colors to alternate. Click Color to select a second row color, if you choose to alternate
row color.
Click OK.
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Contribute formats your table with the design you selected.

Sorting tabular data

You can sort the rows of a table based on the contents of a single column. For example, if you
have a Names column in a table, you can sort items in that column alphabetically.
You can also perform a more complicated table sort based on the contents of two columns. You
cannot sort tables that contain merged cells.
To sort a table:
In your draft, select the table to sort or place the insertion point in any cell in the table.
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Select Table > Sort Table.
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The Sort Table dialog box appears.
From the Sort by pop-up menu, select which column's values you want to sort.
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From the Order pop-up menu, select whether to sort the column alphabetically or numerically,
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then select whether to sort it in ascending order (A to Z, lower numbers to higher numbers) or
descending order.
Tip: When the contents of a column are numbers, select Numerically. An alphabetic sort applied to a list of
one- and two-digit numbers results in the numbers being sorted as if they were words (resulting in ordering such
as 1, 10, 2, 20, 3, 30) rather than being sorted as numbers (resulting in ordering such as 1, 2, 3, 10, 20, 30).
From the Sort by pop-up menu, select which column's values you want to sort.
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From the Order pop-up menu, select whether to sort the column alphabetically or numerically,
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then select whether to sort it in ascending order (A to Z, lower numbers to higher numbers) or
descending order.
From the Then by pop-up menu, select a secondary column to sort on a different column.
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