Sorting Data Tables

Let's briefly highlight another useful feature offered in Dreamweaver: table sorting. Dreamweaver can take an HTML table and sort it, very much like working on a spreadsheet. There are some limitations, with the foremost being that your table cannot have any column- or row-spanning cells. So if you haven't merged any cells, click on your table, go again to the "Commands" menu, and select "Sort Table." You'll get this dialog box:

Here you can select a column and specify either alphabetical or numerical sorting in either an ascending or descending order. Additionally, you can create a second sort operation on an additional column (after the first-selected column is sorted), giving you extensive editing power for you table.