@Rdale: That behavior looks like a bug to me. Since your outliner is sorted in a particular order, and I assume you selected that series of documents in that order, it makes no sense that the editor on the right isn’t in the same order as your outline shows.
Yes, this is the actual problem. At the moment the Windows version is oblivious to the visual order of what you are selecting (a failure that extends broadly to all manner of functions, such as merging documents, duplicating selections, compiling with ‘Current Selection’ etc.).
I believe the only exception may be manually arranged collections (and then only for some tasks). Thus, at the moment the only way to view a chunk of text in non-binder order, unless I’m missing some corner of the software, is:
- With the selected items, use the
Documents ▸ Add to Collection ▸ New...command. - Manually mimic the sorted order, using the sorted outliner in the main editor as a reference.
- When done, click the
↪button in the collection header bar to load its contents into the main editor.
Not exactly ideal at any kind of scale.