Sort Bibliography in Word document
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1 Introduction
By following the procedure described below, you can maintain italics when sorting a biliography input in a Word document.
As a preparation, register two small macros with Word as follows.
1) Start Word and press [Alt]+[F11]. The Visual Basic Editor will be launched.
2) Right click on [Normal] in the upper left pane of the editor, and select [Insert] > [Module].
A pane for editing macros will open in the right side.
(If [Normal] is hidden, press [Ctrl]+[R] and it will appear.)
3) Copy the content of this page and paste it into the pane.
4) Save the change by pressing [Ctrl]+[S]
5) Close the Visual Basic Editor by clicking the [X] in the upper right corner of the editor.
2 The procedure
In order to sort a bibliography without losing italics, follow the three steps below.
Step 1： Enclose italics between <i>...</i> tags
Open the Word document of a bibliography (or an entire paper containing a bibliography). Press [Alt]+[F8] and a list of registered macros will appear. Select "markup_italics" and run it. <i>...</i> tags will be added to all italics.
Step 2： Sort the bibliography and write back the results
Copy-and-paste the tagged bibliography into the input box of this Website and sort it. Then replace the bibliography in the Word document by the sort results.
Step 3： Italicise the tagged elements
Press [Alt]+[F8] again. This time select "restore_italics" and run it. It will italicise the elements enclosed by the tags and delete the tags.
Thus you acquired the sorted bibliography maintaining italics in the original document.
