To follow up on why I need this to sort. The view I've created is a list of employee names, their dept and job title, their supervisor and supers title. The information is going to be used in a drop down list on an infopath form - hence the need for the employee's name to appear alphabetically. (Maybe I can make infopath sort it on the field...hmmm?)

(Why isn't it already alphabetical? Because the view it's built from is order by emp id)