This command is under the FILE menu. It allows you to rearrange entries, or, categories lists. For example, entries are rarely made in their correct date order; (Sort) can arrange them in correct date order. Also, if you have many categories, you can sometimes forget exactly where in the list a certain category is. (Sort) can arrange category lists categories so they are in alphabetical order, for example, or by several other keys.
To sort entries, put your CK window in either Make Entries or Reconcile view. The text of the sort menu item reads "Sort Entries". Selecting this command causes a "sort setup" dialog to appear. You can sort using up to three keys. For entries, these are:
Payee
Ck Num
Date
Amount
Category
Memo
Credit/Debit
Record Num
Say you select Date for Key1 and Category for Key2. When you do the sort, entries will be arranged by date; entries with the same Date will be arranged by category.
Record Num refers to the absolute order entries were entered into the document. Sorting by Record Num puts entries back into the original order they were made.
Ascending and Descending let you change the direction of sort.
To sort categories, move to either the Review or Categories view. The sort menu text changes to (Sort Categories). This command works much the same as sorting entries, but uses different keys. These are:
Name
Credit/Debit
# of Entries
amt of Entries
Auto ON
Budget ON
Sorting by # of Entries, for example, puts the categories with the most entries recorded to them at the head of the category lists.
Under MultiFinder, sorting can run as a background task.
