I have a large number of song lyrics that I need to sort (according to the first few words of the first line). Here is a sample:

aDiyavar virumbum. rAgA: kuntalavarALi. Adi tALA. A.S.Krishnamurti & Shanta Radhakrishnan.

P: aDiyavar virumbum Ayar tam kozhundE un padamalar pOTriDa varam aruLvAyE
A: murppirappil un porppadam paTriya arasa riSi avan mukakundan


ippirappum avanaik-kaiviDalinri narppadam kATTiya namdakumArA
2: pankaja vizhiyOi sondamenrE unakku konju tamizhil sErndisai pADi
tanjamenru undan tiruvaDi paNindE sanjIvAmrtam santamuDam paDittiDum

Each song has the same pattern (the number of lines may differ) and the songs are separated by 3 or 4 spaces.
Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks

I split this from the thread https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...d-project.html.

It is almost always better practice to post a new question, perhaps with links to others that you think are relevant.

I think you have two choices.
1. Put each song into a table format where every song is in its own table cell. The table borders do not need to be visible. It is easy to sort a table based on the first line of each cell.
2. An alternate approach is to style the first line as a heading style and then go to Outline view and show only the headings and sort that.

Both these options require the first line to be the first item in each 'searchable unit'. It appears that perhaps you have a song title in front of the first line. If that is the case, you probably need to repeat the first line above the title with its own style and, after sorting, change the font attributes of that style to hide the paragraph.

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