No, it is not true.

Let’s assume for this example that your spreadsheet has six columns: Name, 
Address, City, State, Zip, Phone

We want to sort this list by City, so do this:

Select the top left cell in your table. In our example, it is cell A1. 
Next, select Data->Sort…
This should select all cells within the table. A dialog box will appear. At the 
top of the dialog, you are given two tabs: Sort criteria, and Options. Select 
options.
Select the options you want, but [**important**] make sure to check “Range 
contains column labels”. When you’ve finished selecting, clic on Sort criteria 
again. 
This time you should see “Sort by: Name” on the first line. Click on the 
disclosure triangle at the end of the “Sort by” field.
Select City instead.
Click OK.

The list is now sorted.

A warning: If you simply select the City column and sort it, only that column 
will be sorted, and your data will be mixed up. If that happens by accident, 
you should immediately select Edit->Undo. The whole table must be selected in 
order to sort all the rows of all the columns. 

Jim

> On Oct 6, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Vince%Gmail <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Windows 10, desktop,
> 
> AOO412m3(Build:9782)  -  Rev. 1709696
> 2015-10-21 09:53:29 (Mi, 21 Okt 2015)
> 
> 
> When sorting data in AOO Calc, must the "key" text  data be located in the 
> leftmost column? It seems that it is so.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> VinceB.
> 
> 
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