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# Sort Picklists

You can arrange picklist values in a specific order or sort them alphabetically.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d193292e64 ">To sort picklists:</td>

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1. From the management settings for the picklist field’s object, go to Fields.
    
    - For custom task or event fields, go to the object management settings for Activities.
    - For standard task fields, go to the object management settings for Tasks. For standard event fields, go to the object management settings for Events.
    - For Knowledge validation status picklists, from Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Validation Statuses, and then select **Validation Statuses**.
2. Click the name of the picklist to update.
3. Click **Reorder**.
4. Use the arrows to arrange the field in the proper sequence.
5. Select a default value if desired.
6. To alphabetize the entries for users on edit pages, check **Sort values alphabetically...**.
7. Save your changes.

On record edit and detail pages and in reports, picklist and multi-select picklist fields can include inactive values. These inactive values are sorted last, unless you choose alphabetical sorting. In that case, all values are sorted alphabetically.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-extend_click-264-0-0-production-enus/5f7d9219-b7b1-4552-8891-f1aba9b289fc/images/icon_note.png)

Note For English locale users, hyphens and spaces in picklist values are ignored when picklists are sorted alphabetically. To view values in a different order, use manual sorting.

#### See Also

- [Find Object Management Settings](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.extend_click_find_objectmgmt_parent.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce lets you personalize your object model with features like custom fields, page layouts, and validation rules. Depending on which experience of Salesforce you have enabled, these customizations are located in different areas of Setup.")