[Solved] Sort in Tables - cannot after insert new data

[sungnee]

Hello everybody

Hi! I'm new to the Forum. So forgive me if I breach any protocals.

I've got a range of lines that I have sorted successfully. However, after adding several new lines at the bottom, I couldn't get them to sort together with the old lines. They sorted separately, old and new, by themsleves.

Help!

Thank you all in advance.

[Zizi64]

Is is a Calc file or a Writer table?
Can you upload your example ODF file here?

[sungnee]

Thank you. The file is a writer table. It has been attached.

It's in Chinese but all items begin with a letter of the alphabet. It's actually my wife's file.Using the alphabet she could locate an item quickly.

Look forward to your reply.

[Zizi64]

The sort function works fine for me. When I typed some text into a new row INSIDE the table (with item beginning letter "B" in the first column), then I selected all the cells of the Table, finally applied the Sort function, the rows was sorted as you expected. (I am using LibreOffice 4.4.7)

[sungnee]

Thank you. Perhaps that's the trouble for us. We can't identify the end of the table and probably inserted text outside the table and Writer then created a new table. Pardon me for sounding really naive, how do we get Writer to show the boundaries of the table?

Thank you for your help. Really appreciate it.

[FJCC]

Right click on the table and select Table from the menu. On the Borders tab click the Inner and Outer Borders button, which I have highlighted in red in the image below. Then pick a line size for the border and a color. When I opened your document, the color was set to white, making it invisible.

[sungnee]

Thank you very much.

I can now see the table, but somehow I was not able to get Writer to show only the table boundary, because I only wanted to see the table boundary. I have tried clicking the "borders only" box, that is the 2nd box from left, but still there are lines surrounding every cell.

Thank you.

[FJCC]

Try first clicking the No Borders button, which is the first one from the left and then clicking the Outer Borders Only button, which is the second one.

[sungnee]

Thank you. However, for some strange reason, following your instructions does not get rid of the cell borders, no matter what I try. It almost seems as if each cell is a separate table. I have uploaded the file again for your reference.

Thank you in advance .

[RoryOF]

Select table, right click on it and turn off Table Boundaries from the popup. Your table is bigger than the page margins - you might wish to adjust this.

[sungnee]

After many days, I finally found time to deal with this problem. It is now solved. Thank you very much!:-)