Bug 167491 - FEATURE REQUEST : add alphabetization of sections by headers
Summary: FEATURE REQUEST : add alphabetization of sections by headers
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: Navigator
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Reported: 2025-07-13 12:21 UTC by elkareh
Modified: 2025-07-15 08:34 UTC (History)
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Description elkareh 2025-07-13 12:21:54 UTC
Please add the ability in writer to automatically put sections in order according to alphabetization of their headers.  This is very useful when merging two documents that have a large number of headers.
Comment 1 Roman Kuznetsov 2025-07-14 19:36:55 UTC
Do you mean a Navigator in Writer?
Comment 2 elkareh 2025-07-14 21:08:08 UTC
In Writer, you can see all the headers in the Navigator panel in the order of their corresponding sections.  Suppose they are not in alphabetical order and you want them, as well as their corresponding sections, to be.  Or, maybe you merged two documents by copying one at the end of the other, so now all the second document headers and sections are not merged in alphabetical order with the first.  In either case, it would be nice to have a single command that lets the sections be re-ordered alphabetically by the headers, and then also shows the headers in alphabetical order in the Navigator.  I have done this in Microsoft Word.  As far as I can tell, it can't be done automatically in the current version of Writer.  I would find it very useful as I tend to create documents with 50 or more headers.