Sort items in library?

[therusticmill]

I have tried entering my items in alphabetical order leading everything with a letter A, B, C, etc. But when run out of letters go to AA, BB, CC. The sort doesn't handle this well. Puts in order of A, AA, B, BB, C, etc.  So, I tried numbers 1,2,3, but when gets to 10, 11, 12 and then 20, 21, etc it does not sort properly either. Puts in ordr 1, 10, 2, 20, etc.  Is there a format by which the items will stay in order? Thanks!

[Spenser]

Hmm, I'm a little confused about how you're trying to sort your library, @therusticmill.

The item library is alphabetically sorted by default, so there shouldn't be the need to us A, B, C, etc. prior to each item... is there a reason you can't enter your item names as is, and allow them to be sorted accordingly?

[therusticmill]

Well, we have about 100 items and many are similar in name. One our price tags we have a code to keep the items aligned. Was trying to simplify the code by keeping it short like A, B, C but when run out of letters it messes up alphabetically. To your point, I may just use longer codes but that requires more work when pricing items and printing spruce tags. 

My simple solution was to use numbers but it sorts numbers by the first number but not sequentially. In other words it puts 10 after 1 instead of after 9. 

[Spenser]

Ah, I see. I think simplest codes you could use would be combination of A-Z, 1-9. 

A1, A2, A3 . . . Z7, Z8, Z9, etc. 

That would allow you to organize over 200 items with two characters, at least. Would that work?