Sort Chinese text

You can sort Chinese text by Chinese character pronunciation or Chinese character stroke numbers.

Important

To complete this procedure, you must first turn on Chinese language features. For more information, see Turn on Chinese language features.

  1. Select the text that you want to sort.

  2. On the Table menu, click Sort.

  3. Under Sort by, in the Paragraphs pop-up menu, select a sorting option.

  4. In the Type pop-up menu, click Stroke or Syllable.

  5. Click Options.

  6. On the Sorting language pop-up menu, click the language whose sorting rules you want to use.

  7. Select any other options that you want.

  8. Click OK, and then click OK again.