Finally, click the System Color Picker button to open the Color dialog box and select any
available color.
Sorting Tables
Have you ever painstakingly built a table, alphabetizing every last entry by last name and first name, only to
have the client call with a list of 13 additional names? ???Oh, and could you sort them by ZIP Code instead of
last name???? Dreamweaver contains a Table Sort command designed to make short work of such requests. All
you do is select your table, and you??™re ready to do a two-level??“deep sort, either alphabetically or numerically.
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The Sort Table command can rearrange a table of any size; more importantly, it??™s HTML-savvy, and gives you
the option of keeping the formatting of your table rows. This capability enables you to maintain a table with
alternating row colors and still sort the data??”something not even the most powerful word processors can
handle. The Sort Table command is useful for generating different views of the same data without having to
use a database.
The Sort Table command is straightforward to use; just follow these steps:
1. Position the cursor inside the table.
2. Choose Commands ??? Sort Table. The Sort Table dialog box (shown in Figure 13-16) opens.
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