Is there a way to make the Graphic Slicers appear in natural number order?
John, you could rename
Slice1…Slice9 as
Slice01…Slice09
so they will display in natural order.
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The slices are sorted alphabetically, so as Klaus suggests, you’d need to manually change their names to include leading zeroes.
We Mac users are spoiled by macOS automatically sorting this kind of things naturally even without leading zeros.
As soon as one gets anything that also needs to work on Windows, their different way of ordering filenames strikes!
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I have sometimes found that Dorico does not always order the slices alphabetically.
I think this may have something to do with what is selected in the list when a new slice is created and/or the physical position of the new slice relative to existing slices. I can’t recreate this at will, but if I play around enough, it happens.
In any case, if the intent is to order them alphabetically, it might be useful if Dorico assigned default names with 2-digit numbers (00, 01, etc.). That would keep alpha and numeric ordering the same for the first 100 slices instead of 10.
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Thank you @dspreadbury (and @k_b @MicheleGalvagno) I understood why it was happening and how to fix it, but not that Dorico was failing to assign the 0’s because the software is designed for both Windows and Mac.
For example, I had noticed that for some setting(s?) Dorico will not accept a fraction that starts with a decimal point, like .5. One must input a 0.5. Yet there is no problem inputting .5 in Finale, which is used on both platforms.
Since my naming convention sometimes includes 4 decimal characters like K 475.125B, the name for K 475.1 will have to be K 475.0001, assuming that I know I will need 4 characters when I start slicing.
Fortunately, when the slices are saved to a folder, the Mac conventions kick in and the slices appear in correct order, so it’s not a big issue.
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I haven’t noticed anything like that myself, and I do a lot of slicing, but will watch for it.
Yes, it would be better if the software were adding the necessary complement of 0’s to keep everything in numerical order. Perhaps that is what the Mac operating system does behind the scenes?
Yes, @MicheleGalvagno I’m now completely spoiled by both Dorico and Mac 
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