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When I sort a table references to other cells are not maintained properly.

I've tried making them both relative & absolute & either way they no longer
point to the correct cell (which has moved) after the sort is completed.

These are all internal references (within the same table) but on a different
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Select everything below your reference cells and be sure you select all
the columns including the column with with your formula - otherwise the
columns will no longer be in synch.


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Thanks but that doesn't help. I'm selecting all rows in the worksheet.
The cell references to an above or below cell are not maintained.
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GLS,

I've stumbled through this before, without a good solution.

Clumsy solutions which I've used and which you may try are to either
(a) re-write the formulas to use vlookup or sumif features, or (b) use
helper calculations on another worksheet. When you sort the main
worksheet, the references to the helper sheet remain correct.


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When I sort a table references to other cells are not maintained properly.

I've tried making them both relative & absolute & either way they no longer
point to the correct cell (which has moved) after the sort is completed.

These are all internal references (within the same table) but on a different
row.
I've solved it!!!! Nice and simply too.

What you do is you have two separate sheets (or even files) -- one for data entry and one for data sorts. So sheet 1 contains your data and formulae. You then on sheet 2 have the whole sheet pointing to the equivalent cell in sheet 1. You then enter data only in sheet 1 and when you want to sort it you only do it on sheet 2. Yippee.
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