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APA bibliography not sorted alphabetically for Word for Mac (version 15.32)

I'm using the built-in bibliography, but the reference list for APA is not sorted alphabetically. I tried using the AZ sort, but it does not work, and it messes up the bibliography as well. Any fix for this? I have seen solutions such as copying out the references and then sort as text, but is there a fix so that the built-in bibliography generator can already do this already?

Hi Eunice, 

  

Please follow the steps below to see if this can help you solve the problem: 

  1. Select the bibliography contents>Click the drop down button on the left of “update Citations and Bibliography”>convert bibliography to static text 

  2. Select the bibliography contents>use the AZ sort feature to sort them. 

  

Thanks, 

Rena 

 

[Updated by Rena Yu MSFT, 02:48 May 4, 2017(UTC)]

 

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Hi Qing Tang, this appears to be a bug though because by right, APA is supposedly alphabetically sorted. For Word for Windows, it is sorted correctly. Another problem is that when opening a document that was formatted in Word for Windows and has a bibliography of APA citation style, when it is opened in Word for Mac, the citation style is shown as '(unknown)'.

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Hi Eunice_Ong,

 

Based on our test, APA sorted fine on our side. To move forward, we’d like to confirm some information to better help you.

 

1. Try reinserting citations on your Mac to see whether they will be sorted by alphabetically sorted.

2. Does this problem happen to only one file or all the documents?

 

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Tisky

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I have tried to reinsert but still the same problem. Here's a example:Image. It happens to all my documents

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Hi Eunice_Ong,

 

I would like to explain that we can sorted APA, however it is not feasible to sorted the bibliography.

 

We suggest you vote for your requirement to Word UserVoice, which will help better our products and services.

 

Thanks for your understanding.

Qing

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