Why isn't it in alphabetical order?
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When the typewriter was first invented, the keys WERE in order, but the little hammers that typed the letters often got stuck. The most commonly used letters were next to each other, so the hammers often came together and caused the mechanism to stick.\nBy arranging the letters in what is known as the QWERTY style (look at the top row of letters), it slowed down the typist and let the mechanism keep up!\nNow that it's all electronic, it doesn't matter so much, except that typists are familiar with it.\nIf it really bugs you, get a Dvorak keyboard or one of the specialist ones.
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You have to remember that computers don't see letters, they see numerics that represent letters. They compare values against one another numerically and based on the type of sorting algorithm used (yes there are many of them and different software can use various forms of sorting) can sort the list appropriately.\n\nI am not one for whipping out many wikipedia answers, but wikipedia has a good article that shows you the various sorts that software often uses. Many of them are described in detail and you can get an idea of how they work.\n\nAs for windows I believe it uses a sorting style known as "Natural sorting" which to us isn't exactly straight forward, but to the computer it is perfectly reasonable. I have including a link to a small quick little article about how it works. If you want more info on this part, just do a search for the keywords "natural sorting"\n\nHope this is what you were looking for. Enjoy!
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9, don't forget order of operations
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Chronologically, with the most recent ones up front.  Usually, that is the one you have to reach for, and a lot of secondary motions include duplications of prior motions.  You may want to tab off specific motions or paperwork, so those can be grabbed quicker as well.\n\nBut putting them in that order, whenever something new comes in, it just has to be dropped into the front of the file, no additional sorting necessary.
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I think the answer is in a different wikipedia article cited below.  K and L were originally B and A, but were reassigned alphabetically to leave room for hypothetical lower shells that turned out not to exist.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_shell
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every number from 0 to 10\n\nplus placed in alphabetical order
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Well the quailifing order is 1 thru 43.\n Just kidding.\n jayski.com and nascar.com both have the order.
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i have had it happen both ways. sometimes they will print out "to the order of" and some times they give it to me blank...\ni don't think it matters... if you have a preference, just ask the issuer.
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You can't rearrange them in the order you want them to be in.\n\nThe order they are in depends on what has updated on their page. The newest update is on top.
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u gotta use somesort of code
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yes sort\nyou have to highlight it and\nin excel \nData --> Sort --> Assending order\n\nin word\nTable --> Sort
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If you are talking about where the dots are placed, then you can place them in order, just make it logical. No particular way is "best."
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Woah, that's a tough one. Is it from an IQ test perhaps?\n\nI haven't solved it but would suggest that we think in terms of those letters being the first letter of items in a list that we would normally know the order of.  Such as JFMAMJJASOND being the months of the year. I don't believe the order has to do with their position in the alphabet.\n\nPLEASE let us know if you get the answer!
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For the alphabetizing, use "filters".\n\n1) Add a row to the top of your spreadsheet (it will be row one)\n2) Label each column (i.e. Title, Author, Publisher)\n3) Select that top row.\n4) Go to the Bar menu and select "Data", then "Filter", then "AutoFilter".\nWhat this will do is add a pull down select box for each column.\n5) The pull down select box will allow you to alphabetize each item in the column.  You could do all sorts of data sorting.\n\nAs for symbols, I may be doing it the hard way, but I copy/paste from word into the cells.\n\nGood luck. :)
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Maybe you are not typing it yet or maybe they dont have it up and running.  Good luck
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1. Select the list or table you want to sort. \n2. On the Table menu, click Sort. \n3. Select the sort options you want.\n4. Click OK.
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well she says it's a trick question....but I did a lil digging and if you want to be technical about it there is more then one word spelled in alphabetical order....\n\nThe longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. The seven-letter addeems (from the archaic verb addeem, meaning to award), alloquy (an archaic or literary word for an address), beefily (in a beefy manner), billowy (like a wave or surge), dikkops (a South African bird) and gimmors (plural of gimmor, an old-fashioned word for a mechanical contrivance) are also close.\n\n\n\nas for the trick part... I don't get it! LOL