David, Burgess, I think you're getting confused. There definitely IS a sort option in the FTM2017 Kinship Report, and it was what David Thomson suggested using in the first place, i.e. sorting in FTM BEFORE exporting (the export was simply to allow unwanted entries to be edited out):
"- In Publish select Relationship Reports then Kinship report.
- Choose Select Individuals; click on Individuals to Include; click Ancestors and make sure Include Ancestors' Descendants is unchecked.
- Select Sort Individuals by Kinship
- Click generate report
- Click the Share button and export to CSV or RTF"
You can see the "Sort Individuals by Kinship" option in the attached screenshot.
Sorting afterwards in Excel is of course possible but it IS a workaround, and was only necessary as plummerh said, because they found that the sort within FTM failed for them for some reason (it works fine for me, though quite slow, so maybe it was a memory issue or some other problem with their FTM installation?)
"- In Publish select Relationship Reports then Kinship report.
- Choose Select Individuals; click on Individuals to Include; click Ancestors and make sure Include Ancestors' Descendants is unchecked.
- Select Sort Individuals by Kinship
- Click generate report
- Click the Share button and export to CSV or RTF"
You can see the "Sort Individuals by Kinship" option in the attached screenshot.
Sorting afterwards in Excel is of course possible but it IS a workaround, and was only necessary as plummerh said, because they found that the sort within FTM failed for them for some reason (it works fine for me, though quite slow, so maybe it was a memory issue or some other problem with their FTM installation?)