Hi -

Here's another task that I feel should be simple and I must be overlooking something.

I am exporting the following fields:

   Mail Name
   Street Address
   Apt
   City
   State
   Zip

In my Sesame database I retrieve the records I want to export (that does not present any problem ... the appropriate records are exported).

I then sort the records by Last Name, First Name and in the database, they are shown in proper sequence.

I then export the fields to a text file.  When I open the text file, the records are sorted alphabetically by the Mail Name instead of by Last Name.

I must be overlooking something but cannot, for the life of me, figure out what. Help would be appreciated.

Spencer,

I ran into this issue also. I was sorting by Last Name before exporting, but the records in the export file were sorted by First Name. So I moved Last Name to the top of the export spec, and this fixed the sort order for me.

You may need to included the Last Name element in your export at the top of the export spec. This will cause the data to be sorted by Last Name. And then just don't use Last Name in the merge document. (I'm assuming you are using the file in a merge document.)