List, If anyone is interested, this is one way to sort the list of subscribers to pianotech: I opened the REVIEW PIANOTECH message, copied it to the clipboard, and pasted it into a blank word processor document (I used MS Word). I then highlighted the entire list of subscribers, added a tab mark where I wanted the names on the right to be, and manually went from name to name, lining up the names in the right column using the tab key. That was the most time-consuming part (337 subscribers in all). Once I had the data in tab-delimited form, I again highlighted just the names and addresses and used the text-to-table command, creating two columns. This put the e-mail addresses in the left column and the corresponding names in the right one. I had to manually adjust the width of each column to accomodate a few rather lengthy addresses. Then I selected the right column and used the sort command. I ended up with e-mail addresses and their corresponding names sorted by first name. Lastly, I went through and deleted a few blank spaces and cleaned up a few other formatting problems. This whole process took about 15 minutes, including a break for attitude adjustment fluids when things didn't seem to be going so well. Tom Seay, RPT Tom Seay School of Music The University of Texas at Austin
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