I can't reproduce your problem.

If I put the cursor on any one of these lines and type C-c ^, it asks me how to sort the list.

- 5
- 3
- 1

John

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Professor John Kitchin 
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Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> wrote:
I've been unable to sort an unordered list as per
http://orgmode.org/manual/Plain-lists.html where it says 'C-c ^' but
everytime I try on a highlighted region it just inserts ^ at the
beginning of the first item.

So how can I sort it please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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