[jbrown]

Sorry for the confusion! Sorting in Planning Mode only sorts projects as a whole, rather than individual actions (as you noted, to sort individual actions you can go into Context mode and use the View Bar). The main reason we don't sort actions in Planning mode is that we wanted to preserver the order of actions you entered into the project, while still giving you the flexibility of sorting actions in Context mode.

If you'd like to do a sort of "forced sort" in Planning mode, you can highlight all actions you wish to sort, then select an option from the Edit>Sort menu. Hope this helps!