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Unfortunately wordpad does not have an option to sort the word in Alphabetical order; you will need Word processors to be able to sort the lists or words into alphabetical order. You can try to use the Word 2007 on your sons computer to sort the words in alphabetical order.Sep 19, 2009

I finally reckoned that the most powerful and versatile one was Notepad++. ... It's true that the standard sorting plugin shipping with Notepad++ is pretty basic. It only lets you sort the file at a given column and by lexicographical order only.Jan 23, 2011

There isn't an auto sort setting in Notepad++ as far as I know. However you can easily set up a shortcut (2 keys minimum) to activate a sort as and when required. Alternatively you could generate a macro which could sort and also perform other steps if you needed other functions performed at the same time.Aug 23, 2020

Although there's no straightforward way to sort a text file, we can achieve the same net result by doing the following: 1) Use the FileSystemObject to read the file into memory; 2) Sort the file alphabetically in memory; 3) Replace the existing contents of the file with the sorted data we have in memory.Feb 25, 2005

What you do is make a column block (Alt + Left-click, then drag) covering the lines you want sorted and have the left side of the block be in the first column you want the sort to be based upon.Sep 13, 2016

The XSLT <xsl:sort> element is used to specify a sort criteria on the nodes. It displays the output in sorted form. The <xml:sort> element is added inside the <xsl:for-each> element in the XSL file, to sort the output.

The command produces a sorted list of lines that contain the specified text. Then type the text that you want sorted, and press ENTER at the end of each line. When you have finished typing text, press CTRL+Z, and then press ENTER. The sort command displays the text you typed, sorted alphabetically.Mar 3, 2021

• To do the sort, select lines to sort, go to TextFX on the main menu and select TextFX Tools - Sort lines. Since you are using Notepad++, I assume you are using Windows. You have a few other options to sort large text file content alphabetically.

• To do the sort, select lines to sort, go to TextFX on the main menu and select TextFX Tools - Sort lines. Since you are using Notepad++, I assume you are using Windows. You have a few other options to sort large text file content alphabetically. My personal favorite is PowerShell.