Yes........the column can be sorted itself, ascending or decending, or each
row can be assigned a number in a helper column, and then the whole thing
sorted either ascending or decending according to that column.......

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"preowned_male" wrote in message
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can excel reorder lines of text from a txt file?

example would be....


joe
john
jim
james

would be after


john
james
joe
jim