Hi Richard,
Check out this thread: http://techtalk.filemaker.com/?14@@.59b92746
esp. the first reply from Tim Whisenant

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Steve Moore
Cumberland, Maine


On May 26, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Richard S. Russell wrote:


(2) What can I use as the contents of a 2nd field that will not be visible in the drop-down list but will nonetheless enable me to use the 2nd field as the basis of the higher-level sort?


I had thot to be clever and use a soft (regular) space instead of a 1 and a hard space instead of a 2, so that they'd BE there in the drop-down list but just wouldn't show up. Unfortunately, it appears that, for sorting purposes, these 2 kinds of spaces are identical.

Any ideas?

FMPA 9.0v3 on Mac OS 10.4.11.

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