diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/edit/RefactorRetryController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/edit/RefactorRetryController.java
index 6d375c34a..4c9086bea 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/edit/RefactorRetryController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/edit/RefactorRetryController.java
@@ -2,9 +2,14 @@
 
 package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.edit;
 
+import java.text.Collator;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.ListIterator;
 
 import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
@@ -64,6 +69,8 @@ public class RefactorRetryController extends BaseEditController {
 			Collections.sort(dpList);
 			newPropertyOpts = FormUtils.makeOptionListFromBeans(dpList,"URI","Name", null, null);
 		}
+		HashMap<String,Option> hashMap = new HashMap<String,Option>();
+        newPropertyOpts = getSortedList(hashMap,newPropertyOpts);
 		newPropertyOpts.add(new Option("","(move to trash)"));
 		optMap.put("NewPropertyURI", newPropertyOpts);				
 		
@@ -135,5 +142,35 @@ public class RefactorRetryController extends BaseEditController {
 
 	    
 	}
+	
+	public List<Option> getSortedList(HashMap<String,Option> hashMap, List<Option> optionList){
+    	
+     	 class ListComparator implements Comparator<String>{
+  			@Override
+  			public int compare(String str1, String str2) {
+  				// TODO Auto-generated method stub
+  				Collator collator = Collator.getInstance();
+  				return collator.compare(str1, str2);
+  			}
+          	
+          }
+
+     	List<String> bodyVal = new ArrayList<String>();
+     	List<Option> options = new ArrayList<Option>();
+     	Iterator<Option> itr = optionList.iterator();
+     	 while(itr.hasNext()){
+          	Option option = itr.next();
+          	hashMap.put(option.getBody(),option);
+             bodyVal.add(option.getBody());
+          }
+          
+                  
+         Collections.sort(bodyVal, new ListComparator());
+         ListIterator<String> itrStr = bodyVal.listIterator();
+         while(itrStr.hasNext()){
+         	options.add(hashMap.get(itrStr.next()));
+         }
+         return options;
+     }
     
 }