I work for an organization that publishes books. I have started to learn a bit about using macros in Word and incorporating them into our processes.

One of the bugaboos my colleagues have is failing to alphabetize reference lists. The book will then jump to layout in InDesign and our proofer will have to make changes to the layout to alphabetize the references.

We assign Word styles to all sections/chapters in our book. In this case, "reference" is the style we use for all references. That style does not appear anywhere else.

I realize that Word has a very easy way to alphabetize references or any sort of listing for that matter (Home -> Paragraph -> Sort). The issue I'm having is with automation of a macro. I would like to add something to a large macro I've created that will find and select all content with the reference style and then alphabetize it. Basically, I want a macro that identifies the reference list in the document and alphabetizes it.

Any help would be appreciated!