Home tab A-Z in Microsoft word document. doesnt work

I am trying to arrange my references alphabetically using the home tab A-Z in Microsoft word document. But it didn't work, and i got a pop up window stating that '' Word cannot sort field in the selection. Any advices?

Hi,
How do you try to sort your references? Do you select the complete set of references and then click AZ? If so Word is telling you it needs a single set of words to select on. It will be hard to sort references if they exists out of multiple words and lines.
Try adding your references to a table and set the table lines to 'no border'. In that case word can look for the first word of the first row of the table and sort in that.
Maurice
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