Microsoft Excel 2003 has Sort Ascending and Sort Descending options in the autofilter dropdown (see http://www.exceltip.com/st/Sort_Ascending/Descending_While_Using_AutoFilter/726.html ) This allows for temporarily sorting all relevant rows by the column containing the autofilter dropdown. This would be a helpful addition to Gnumeric.
tags 415718 + upstream forwarded 415718 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497954 thanks