Newbie question - Sorting arrow not visible in dynamic dimension in freeform table. How to sort?

Some of the options are a little inconsistent.... Some dimensions like Dates (Day, Week, Month, Quarters, etc) can be sorted... but when you pull in dimensions, there is no sort of alphabetical order available... This is probably due to them not knowing how many unique values could potentially exist... is the dimension more like a lookup table holding only 20 unique values, or is it a dimension that holds URLs, so there might be millions.

You can sort IF you pull over values one by one (locking your list to a specific sub-set of items)... for example, I track our "Breakpoint" (this is different than the device in use). If I pull over the values individually:

Then there is a very clearly defined number of items, so sorting is available:

If I just create a table with it pulling the values dynamically... there is no sort:

So if you have a relatively small and unchanging set of values, you can drag them in 1 by 1... but there's a big caveat to this... each row will act like a "quick segment", and the table will no longer de-duplicate Visits or Unique Visitors, etc... if you are using a metric that doesn't duplicate like Page Views or Orders, etc.. you should be fine.... but keep this in mind when building out your reports...

You could make a suggestion about this, but I suspect this was removed as a potential performance issue...