Sorting does not produce an alphabetical list.

[alanterrill]

I've got a multi page document consisting of a single column of text , relating to articles in a set of magazines. I want to produce an index, but highlighting the text and sorting by field 1 does not result in proper alphabetical sorting. For example, part of my list of items beginning with D looks like this after sorting:


Devon —Radford, Castle Lodge 65;19
Devon —Ruined church, Ivybridge 65;5
Devon —Shell House Jordans, Ilminster 68;24
Devon —Vigers Hall, Shell House, Wallabrook 62;6
Dewstow’s grottoes, Caerwent XGW 63:8
Diaries of Sanderson Miller of Radway together with his memoir of James Menteath, The (William Hawkes)64;12
Disney, Henry Roebuck 69;12
Dodington Follies GL 71;9
Dodington Manor Summer House GL 70;9
Design for Death (B.Jones) 16;5
Design for Death (Barbara Jones) 83;15
Design for folly 77;20



So it goes Dev to Dew, then Dia, Dod and back to Des. Any idea why?