How to put text in alphabetical order in Word 11 Apr I was inspired to write this post after having to put yet another student's bibliography into alphabetical order. I know the quick and easy way to do this -- but I don't think a lot of people know that you can do this! So, you've got your bibliography, and you've been very good and followed the rules for setting it out (I've used Harvard method here) but it's not in alphabetical order by author surname, and, except in certain cases,* it really should be. *A very few referencing systems ask for the bibliography to be in the order in which the references appear in the text. I've hardly ever had to deal with them. But I like completeness! So, a lovely list of books but not in order by the authors' surnames. How can we resolve this without swapping all the lines around? First, highlight all the text you want to alphabetise. Then, make sure you've got the Home tab at the front. See that little button you've never even seen before, next to the paragraph mark? Press the A-Z button and up pops a dialogue box. There are all sorts of ways in which you can order the text , which are very similar to the ways you can order text and numbers in Excel. You can even specify whether what you're sorting has a header row (I'm not sure why you'd want to do that, as you