Ascending and descending

Question

I'm a new convert from pc's to macs. In pages, is there a way to do ascending and/or descending without having to use tables? I just want to use a blank page and type things in and then alphabetize without having to use tables to do so.

Answer 1

My guess is that Services like WordService are forced to drop some characters from the text which they treat as this short script does.
set noteMark to ASCII character (14)
tell application "Pages" to tell document 1
set tb to (body text)
if tb contains noteMark then my strip(tb, noteMark)
set the body text to tb
end tell
on strip(t, d)
local l
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set l to text items of t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return l as text
end strip
noteMark is what we get at a note ref location when we grab the body text.
If we don't drop it, the
set the body text to tb
instruction will fail leaving Pages in an unstable status.
You may test after disabling the instruction:
if tb contains noteMark then my strip(tb, noteMark)
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 6 mars 2009 12:23:35)