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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Department of Chemical Engineering
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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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