Bankston Timeline

You can Select All, Copy, and Paste this entire spreadsheet into an Excel spreadsheet or a Word document or lots of other places.

1) Ctrl-A is the keyboard shortcut for Select All. Alternatively you can RIGHT click on a spreadsheet cell to get an "edit menu" and click on Select All. The selected text will become highlighted.

2) Ctrl-C is the keyboard shortcut for Copy or RIGHT click again to get the edit menu and click on Copy.

3) Now open a new spreadsheet or document and Paste to receive your very own copy of the spreadsheet.

4) You can then sort it differently, rearrange columns, delete rows, add information or whatever you need for your own purposes.

5) I recommend that you first make a working copy of the original so that the original can be trusted to be intact.

Once it is in a spreadsheet, you can highlight (select) the entire spreadsheet and sort the entire thing by any column (such as name, date, location, etc.) Similarly you can select (highlight) all the rows for a given individual and sort those rows by date or location.

Microsoft gives a fairly good explanation of how to sort at this URL. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/sort-data-in-a-range-or-table-HP010073947.aspx and several other explanations can be found by Googling How to sort data in Excel.

If you have difficulties, send me an e-mail and wait patiently (maybe weeks) for me to reply, but I can tell you how to get the results you want.

The next line is the start of the spreadsheet.