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Sorting - cells containing numbers, numbers and letters
This should be simple to do ...but I'm stumped. I have a spreadsheet with
legislative district numbers that contain numbers while others contain numbers and letters: 1 2 2a 2b 3 4 4a 4b 4c 5 etc. I have tried converting the cell format to text and that does not work. Please understand that I am not Excel literate and any answer must be in simple but detailed terms that someone who could break a crowbar in a sandbox can understand. |
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Sorting - cells containing numbers, numbers and letters
What are you trying to do with this data? Sort it??
"Gunny" wrote: This should be simple to do ...but I'm stumped. I have a spreadsheet with legislative district numbers that contain numbers while others contain numbers and letters: 1 2 2a 2b 3 4 4a 4b 4c 5 etc. I have tried converting the cell format to text and that does not work. Please understand that I am not Excel literate and any answer must be in simple but detailed terms that someone who could break a crowbar in a sandbox can understand. |
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well if i were pedantic i would ask you what the problem is seeing the sample
you have shown us is sorted perfectly.You want to know how to sort a jumbled column to a column like you have shown? -- paul remove nospam for email addy! "Gunny" wrote: This should be simple to do ...but I'm stumped. I have a spreadsheet with legislative district numbers that contain numbers while others contain numbers and letters: 1 2 2a 2b 3 4 4a 4b 4c 5 etc. I have tried converting the cell format to text and that does not work. Please understand that I am not Excel literate and any answer must be in simple but detailed terms that someone who could break a crowbar in a sandbox can understand. |
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this may not be practical, but if you put a single apostraphe ' before any number, this will solve your problem. Matt -- Mallycat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mallycat's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=35514 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=561788 |
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Sorting - cells containing numbers, numbers and letters
Hi Gunny,
see Sorting, Some notes on sorting in Excel http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/sorting.htm --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "Gunny" wrote in message ... This should be simple to do ...but I'm stumped. I have a spreadsheet with legislative district numbers that contain numbers while others contain numbers and letters: 1 2 2a 2b 3 4 4a 4b 4c 5 etc. I have tried converting the cell format to text and that does not work. Please understand that I am not Excel literate and any answer must be in simple but detailed terms that someone who could break a crowbar in a sandbox can understand. |
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