Quick tip
Problem:
I started to compile a link list of mostly free image stock (creative commons) websites that I knew about. I was assembling this list for my students so they had images to use on their projects without violating copyrights. As I added them it was in no particular order. I found I was duplicating links and not able to go back later to find a specific link. You would think that in Adobe Dreamweaver there would be an easy way to sort this kind of content and every other solution I saw required javascript which I thought was a rather cumbersome approach.
Here is my the solution:
- Copy the contents right off the webpage (ctrl+click or right click).
- Paste the contents into Microsoft word. It keeps all the HTML formatting if you want to later copy it and paste it into your own web page.
- Select the text again and hit the Home ribbon tab to access the paragraph styles.
- You’ll see a button that looks like A-Z with an arrow. Click that and it will offer options to sort your list. Sort by paragraph, type: text in ascending order and you’ll have an alphabetical list!
- Then paste it back into the web page and it retains all the links and the formatting. Yeah!