Sorting results by attribute in a table chart format

From my comment in this article: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022183794?page=1#comment_360002497954

I would like to sort on any table column by clicking on the header.  I can do this for the metrics, but not for the row attributes when I have a table display output.  Once I sort a metric, I'm stuck sorting by metric.   I often write quick queries to answer questions, I don't need to build out a sort option in a report I'm going to keep running.  I just want to sort on the fly - any column, attribute or metric.

Another comment in the above post suggested I set the sort order for the first attribute column in Result Manipulation > Sort.  However, this only works as the default sort.  Once I sort any metric column on the fly, my attribute sort is gone, can I cannot get it back unless I close my query and open it back up.