 Hi and welcome to the video course for Microsoft Office Word 2016. My name is Patrick Loner and I'll be your instructor on this course. We're gonna start with a little bit about my background. I've been in the IT industry actually for about 18 years, working as a network administrator and a Microsoft certified trainer. And of course a long way, I've done my fair share of applications training as well and I've also used the office programs personally, every version since I think Office 97 was the first version that I was involved with. I heavily use, of course, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, all of those very well-versed in the differences, the older versions to the new, the compatibility issues from an IT perspective, but also just using them from an application perspective. So I'm excited to be able to go through these courses and share this information with you and get you ready to use the latest version of Microsoft Office. So in this first topic, we're gonna talk about sorting table data because when you enter data into tables, you are probably just doing so without any real order in mind. You may be receiving the information from another source and so you're just cutting and pasting the information as you receive it. You can try to put it in alphabetical order or numerical order, but that's gonna be time consuming and you're probably still gonna end up with everything not being exactly the way that it should. So how then do we go about sorting information? Well, Word makes it easy to sort the data inside your table into meaningful groups. When we use the term sorting, we're just talking about putting the data in ascending or descending order and that can be either alphabetic order or numerical order. You can sort tables on a single level or multiple levels. So, if it's a list of customers, that list could be sorted by zip code only or it could be sorted by city first, then zip code. If there happen to be numerous zip codes within a city, we could sort by alphabetic name and then account number, those kinds of things. It's not necessary when you're doing sorting to have column headings, although it makes it easier and more meaningful if you do. And if you do, as you can see, we can in the single level sort refer to the fact that the list does have a header row, all right? So we're just sorting by a particular column that you wanna sort the table, then we're specifying the sort order of ascending or descending and then we can do the multi-level sort if we would like just by choosing another column. We'll see you in the next video. Bye.