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Download as PDF; Printable version; This is a documentation subpage for Template:Sort list. It may contain usage information, ...
See also mw:Help:Sorting#Specifying a sort key. If you have a list where all the entries start with quotes ("), and you want to set a sort key for one of the entries, then you will need to use the HTML name or number for quotes at the beginning of that sort key (see also List of XML and HTML character entity references § Character entity ...
<noinclude>[[Category:Sorting templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character. See also: Help:Sorting
For example; for quickly updating country lists, or adding/updating a rank column, or copying a list of full names for states or countries. See Help:Sortable tables about rank columns and row numbers. See also: Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files. See the section on updating List of countries by incarceration rate.
code for color, alignment, and sorting mode; fixed texts such as units; special formats for sorting; In such a case, it can be useful to create a template that produces the syntax for a table row, with the data as parameters. This can have many advantages: easily changing the order of columns, or removing a column
Sorting may refer to: Help:Sortable tables, for editing tables which can be sorted by viewers; Help:Category § Sorting category pages, for documentation of how categories are sorted; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists § Sorting a list, for guidelines on ordering of lists
Shuffling can also be implemented by a sorting algorithm, namely by a random sort: assigning a random number to each element of the list and then sorting based on the random numbers. This is generally not done in practice, however, and there is a well-known simple and efficient algorithm for shuffling: the Fisher–Yates shuffle .
The name "1-2-3" stemmed from the product's integration of three main capabilities: along with its core spreadsheet functionality, 1-2-3 also offered integral charting/graphing and rudimentary database operations. Data features included sorting data in any defined rectangle, by order of information in one or two columns in the rectangular area.