I use Open Office Writer though I suspect Word will be the same. Titles tend to use upper case letters at the begining of words. If you inadvertently hold down shift when using the space bar between words you get a shifted space which looks the same as an unshifted space but it is treated differently when sorted because one of its bits is set to 1 not 0.

Too, the use of - in Open Office Writer can be problematic as it regularly becomes transitioned, pun intended, into –, which is a completely different character. It's longer and thinner. The exact circumstances under which this happens took me an age to fathom, but though it's useful in titles be careful when using it.

In addition if you use, as I do in my Castle The Series, say four digit numbering starting at 0000, 0001, 0002, ..., 0010, ..., 0099, 0100 &c., rather than 1, 2, ..., 10, ..., 99, 100 &c., then the stories will order correctly without recourse to the weighting function. Since I have used 0000 that's 10,000 possibilities in total. I return all weightings to 0 to make my tales order correctly which will work up to tale 9999. I only use three digits for the Grumpy Old Men which will be enough.

This works because 'Tale 004' comes before 'Tale 015', the first six characters 'Tale 0' are the same and 04 comes before 15. However, 'Tale 4' would come after 'Tale 15' because the first five characters 'Tale ' are the same and then 1 comes before 4. Remember the space has to be counted as a character too.

Regards,
Eolwaen