Sort by length..

[ranjan]

Hi,

Am having a table and i want to sort by largest to smallest by the column value 3.
am having a code but am unable to modify the range as per my requirement.


My range is first 3 rows has to be excluded from the table or range starts from the 4th row. Below Macro works pretty when it has a table structure and when i delete the first 3 rows of my table below code is working exactly, is it possible without deleting a first 3 rows it can sort the table by largest to smallest.

PFA for reference.

Code:

Sub SortByWordLength()
  Dim objTable As Table
  Dim objColumnCell As Cell
  Dim objColumnCellRange As Range
  Dim objNewColumnCellRange As Range
  Dim nRowNumber As Integer
  Dim nColumnNumber As Integer
  Dim strWordLenth As String
  Dim nSortOrder As Integer
  Dim nCurrentTableIndex As Integer
  Dim nTableColumnsInCurrentTable As Integer
 
  nCurrentTableIndex = ActiveDocument.Range(0, Selection.Tables(1).Range.End).Tables.Count
  nTableColumns = ActiveDocument.Tables(nCurrentTableIndex).Columns.Count

  nColumnNumber = InputBox("Enter the column number you want to sort", "Column Number", "For example:2")
 
  If nColumnNumber > 0 And nColumnNumber <= nTableColumns Then
    nSortOrder = InputBox("Choose the sort order:" & vbNewLine & "If you want to sort by descending, click 1" & vbNewLine & "If you want to sort by ascending, click 0", "Sort Order", "For example:1")

    If nSortOrder = 1 Or nSortOrder = 0 Then
      '  Add a new column to put the word length of the specified column. 
      Set objTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(nCurrentTableIndex)
      objTable.Columns.Add BeforeColumn:=objTable.Columns(nColumnNumber)
      nRowNumber = 1

      For Each objColumnCell In objTable.Columns(nColumnNumber + 1).Cells
        Set objColumnCellRange = objColumnCell.Range
        objColumnCellRange.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1
        Set objNewColumnCellRange = objTable.Cell(nRowNumber, nColumnNumber).Range
        objNewColumnCellRange.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1
 
        strWordLenth = Len(objColumnCellRange.Text)
 
        objNewColumnCellRange.InsertAfter (strWordLenth)
 
        nRowNumber = nRowNumber + 1
      Next objColumnCell
 
      objTable.Select
 
      '  Sort by the word length. 
      Selection.Sort ExcludeHeader:=True, FieldNumber:="Column " & nColumnNumber, SortFieldType:= _
        wdSortFieldNumeric, SortOrder:=nSortOrder, FieldNumber2:="", _
        SortFieldType2:=wdSortFieldAlphanumeric, SortOrder2:=wdSortOrderAscending _
      ,  FieldNumber3:="", SortFieldType3:=wdSortFieldAlphanumeric, SortOrder3:= _
        wdSortOrderAscending, Separator:=wdSortSeparateByCommas, SortColumn:= _
        False, CaseSensitive:=False, LanguageID:=wdEnglishUS, SubFieldNumber:= _
        "Paragraphs", SubFieldNumber2:="Paragraphs", SubFieldNumber3:="Paragraphs"
 
      objTable.Columns(nColumnNumber).Delete
 
    Else
      MsgBox ("Invalid sort type, please try again")
    End If
  Else
    MsgBox ("Invalid column number, please try again")
  End If
End Sub

Any help is highly appreciated....

[Guessed]

Your code is inserting a temporary column to make a sortable list. Why not make two temporary columns and assign 0 to the first three cells, assign 1 to the rest and when you do your sort - do it on two columns.