Crystal Reports sort by group headers

Hi Experts
I have created a crystal report with 16 groups. Instead of sorted each group, i need to sort the list of groups by the 16 fields. is this possible? If so, how?

Hi,
I may be wrong by how the report may be reviewed if there are 16 columns to be sorted. It is seldom that a report have more than 10 columns to sort so that the report is still readable.
Thanks,
Gordon

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