I am looking for a small program where I can input text, and it will generate a list in alphabetical order. The smaller the program is, the better use I will get out of it. The only thing I can seem to find is Microsoft Word, but I don't want that. Can anyone help?
2007-01-25 06:37:29 · 6 answers · asked by Billy B 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Do you want something that will just take a text file and sort it?
If so, there's a program that comes with Windows called sort.
Go to the Start Menu, select Run..., and type "cmd" and hit enter to get to a DOS prompt.
Then type "sort /? | more" to see the options for the sort command.
To actually sort a file, you need to make sure it's saved in a text format (ends in .TXT and opens in NotePad).
Then you can use the sort command like this:
C:\> sort original.txt /o sorted.txt
Excel will do it too if it's stored as a text file. You'd have to open it in Excel, click on the first column (A), go to the Data menu, and select Sort... Then just save it back as a text file.
2007-01-25 06:45:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microsoft Excel or a Spreadsheets program will probably help.
2007-01-25 14:44:00 · answer #2 · answered by Danny M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only other program that I can think of at the moment is Microsoft Excel, but it's part of the same package... hmm...
2007-01-25 14:42:47 · answer #3 · answered by griffen1989 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excel will... outside of that, try Open Office apps
2007-01-25 14:43:16 · answer #4 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can do it in excel.
Put each entry n its own cell and sort it alphabetically.
2007-01-25 14:43:17 · answer #5 · answered by sempurvivum 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can try notepad on your system....... and then maybe try a right click in the text area and sort by name on the right click side...maybe that will work...or try www.majorgeeks.com and search that site for text editors there.....hope this helps ya!
2007-01-25 14:42:54 · answer #6 · answered by Boogieman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋