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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