Good, and a lot less confusing than my answer would be to someone
looking at the helper column.
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HTH,
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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message ...
Create a helper column with a formula of

=TEXT(A1,"mmdd")

and sort by the helper column

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HTH

Bob Phillips

"Debgala" wrote in message
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I have a report exported to XL as text file and converted to XL. The
dates
appear as mm/dd/yy. I want to sort the dates by month & day, but want to
ignore the year. Is this possible? How?
Thanks,