Simple worksheet sorting

[eas]

I did a search and found Blink's eureka:

Eureka, turn on the DATABASE HEADERS and selct a ROW header, not a COLUMN header and drag the little icons to the DATABASE HEADER! It worked...I get to sleep tonight! Thanks for the nudge...

But I have to day I am still slightly baffled.

I have a worksheet set up with a fairly standard interior finish schedule. I want it to sort by room number, the first column.

Nothing I seem to do (ie. turning on Database Headers doesn't seem to do anything but give me a nice check mark in the pull down menu.) seems to activate the sort ascending / descending icons. Do they only interact with more complex record/pio based worksheets not the simple fill in the blank thing I am using.

Any help much appreciated.

[eas]

To answer my own question, worksheet sorting seems to be dependent on using a database not a spreadsheet.

So I tried copying out my worksheet into Excel, sorting it there and bringing it back into the worksheet.

Seems to work for this simple task.

[jfmarch]

you can't sort a worksheet that does not have any database rows in it.

[eas]

Yes, so I have finally realized.

Thanks though.

Something for the wish list.