Ascending order
A list of objects is sorted in ascending order when it is sorted by lower values first.
For example "1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 100" is a list of numbers in ascending order, so is "Bob, John, Mary, Mike, Randy" or "01/01/2007, 02/01/2007, 03/01/2007"
The opposite of ascending order is
descending order
.
The list of objects can be implicit, such as a
column in a
spreadsheet
or a field in a
database table.
Ascending order can even span
multiple columns or fields, which then are treated, like
a concatenated key for sorting purposes.
In some cases you can sort a set of rows or records by one field in ascending order and by another in descending order. In such a case first all entries in the list are sorted by the first key in ascending order, then all entries with the same value for this key, will be sorted in descending order by the second key.
Openoffice.org Calc
lets you sort table data by one or more columns in ascending
order. OpenOffice.org Base
lets you sort the query results in
ascending order.
Arranging tables and lists in ascending order
The following screencasts demonstrate how to arrange tables and lists in ascending order:
- Sort data in ascending order using the toolbar
- Sort data with column headings in ascending order
- Sort query results in ascending order
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