Alphabetizing References Microsoft Word Mac

If you need to insert citations into a Word document, Office 2011 for Mac offers the Citation feature to help you. Citations describe the source of a quotation, passage, figure, or data, and they follow a particular formatting style.

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To activate the Citations feature, follow these steps:

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  1. Switch to a view that supports the Toolbox, such as Print Layout view, by clicking the Print Layout button at the lower-left corner of the document window.

  2. If Toolbox isn’t showing already, click the Toolbox button on the Standard toolbar to display it.

  3. Click the Citations button (second from the left in the top toolbar) to activate the Citations tab.

In the Citations tab of the Toolbox, you have the following options:

  • Citation Style: Click this pop-up menu to choose from four different styles: APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian.

  • Citations List: Word maintains a list of your citations. This option shows Word’s master citations list filtered by the selected style. Select a citation; then double-click it to insert it in your document at the insertion cursor.

  • Add Citation: Displays the Add New Citation dialog for your master citations list. You can enter appropriate data for the currently selected citation style.

  • Delete Citation: Removes the selected citation from Word’s master citation list.

  • Edit Source or Use Citation Source Manager:

    You have two options when you click this button:

    • Edit Source: Displays the Edit Citation dialog.

    • Citation Source Manager: Displays the Citation Source Manager. Here you can copy citations to and from open documents and share citations with others.

Word maintains a master list of citations, but you have to add or copy at least one citation to your master citations list before you can insert a citation into a document.

In the Edit Citation dialog, you have these options:

  • Type of Source: Click this pop-up menu to choose from a list of many source types.

  • Bibliography Fields: Enter data as applicable for the citation style selected in the Toolbox pop-up menu.

  • Example: Shows an example for the currently select input field.

Use the Citation Source Manager dialog to set the following features:

  • Master List: Your Word master list of citations.

  • Current List: Citations in the currently active document.

  • Copy: Copy a selected citation to or from either list. The Copy direction arrow changes depending upon which list has the currently selected citation.

  • New: Opens the Create New Source dialog.

  • Edit: Opens the selected citation in the Edit Source dialog.

  • Delete: Deletes the selected source from your master list.

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Looking for a way on how to alphabetize in Word document? The following post has step by step instructions on how to do that.

MS Word is a favorite word processor program developed by the Microsoft. It is a part of Microsoft Office suite and also available as a standalone program.

It has a plethora of formatting options enough to create any documents. Whether you want to create an assignment for your school or have to share a survey report document with your boss, the program is capable enough to create one.

How to Alphabetize in Word Document

Since using an MS Word document is easy, but some users find it difficult to employ various formatting options while creating a document.

Alphabetizing References Microsoft Word Mac

One out of those options is an Alphabetizing feature; it is indeed a useful skill to master in the MS Word, especially if you’re reading with lists and directories often.

The good thing is that sorting a list alphabetically is super easy as you just have to make a click or two to use the option. In the upcoming lines, you will read step by step instructions on how to sort a list alphabetically in Word.

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So without further delay why don’t you start reading the instructions:

How to Alphabetize in Word 2007 or Latest

1. First of all, you need to open the Word document in which you want to Alphabetize text. In case, you don’t have the Word file, and you just want to learn this feature, then create a new word document.

For that, right click on the desktop and from the context menu select New -> Microsoft Office Word Document.

2. In the text document start typing and create a list of words which you want to Alphabetize in the same document.

Note: Keep in mind that, the words which you want to sort alphabetically in the document required to formatted as a list, each entry need to have its line.

3. Once you have a list, just make a selection of the Words which you want to Alphabetize.

Note: In case, the Word document only has a list then there is no need to make a selection. It is required only if the list in Word document is the part of a larger document.

4. To Alphabetize, you’re required to click on the ‘Sort‘ option listed under Home tab available in the ribbon of Word document. Like shown in the following screenshot:

This will launch the ‘Sort text‘ window.

With default settings, the Alphabetize process will happen by Paragraph. Next, to this, you will find two radio buttons, i.e., Ascending or Descending. You need to click on the one to choose how the list should appear.

Ascending – It will show the list in alphabetical order (A-Z)

Descending – It will show the list in reverse alphabetical order. (Z-A)

In my case, I have sort Alphabetize in Ascending order and here is sorting happen in the Word document

How to Alphabetize in Word 2003 or Earlier

In Word 2003 or earlier, the Sort option is listed in the menu of Table tab available on the ribbon. Check the screenshot for a clear idea:

The rest of the steps are similar to the steps discussed above for Word 2007 or above.

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That’s it!

List Of Words To Alphabetize

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I trust you will find my this blog post on how to Alphabetize in Word Document useful. If you want me to write a tutorial on any other MS Word document, feel free to share it in the comments.