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How do I sort mailing addresses in Excel?
I have a mailing list that lists street addresses in the following format:
COLUMN C 1 Winding Way 10 Main Street 111 Douglas Court 2 Main Street 23 Douglas Court 200 Winding Way Can I sort this column alphabetically by STREET? |
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How do I sort mailing addresses in Excel?
Warning Back-Up or Save your data before trying this...
With your data in C2:C1000, say Insert temporarily a new column AFTER C - Which will be D. Enter into D1 =MID(C2,FIND(" ",C2),50) and Copy down; Then Copy D2:D1000, Then Paste-Special Values - Then Delete Col C HTH "outfitterim" wrote: I have a mailing list that lists street addresses in the following format: COLUMN C 1 Winding Way 10 Main Street 111 Douglas Court 2 Main Street 23 Douglas Court 200 Winding Way Can I sort this column alphabetically by STREET? |
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How do I sort mailing addresses in Excel?
How about using 'text to columns'?
Data Text to Column Delimited next Click Space You will end up with three columns. After you sort them by street, you can put them together as: C1 &" " &D1" " & E1 "outfitterim" wrote in message ... I have a mailing list that lists street addresses in the following format: COLUMN C 1 Winding Way 10 Main Street 111 Douglas Court 2 Main Street 23 Douglas Court 200 Winding Way Can I sort this column alphabetically by STREET? |
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