to add to otto's comments:
You only need to worry about "shifting" if you add or
delete cells instead of entire rows. this will cause data
to shift.

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What do you mean by shifted? Do you mean the patient's
data may not follow
the patient's name? If you select all the data first
(all the rows and all
the columns), then sort, you are assured that all the
data for each patient
will stay with that patient. HTH Otto
"Ourania" wrote in
message
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I have a question pertaining to Excel. I keep track of
patients in excel
sheet.. I add about 10 patients a week into this sheet.
Then I sort it by
patients' name, so the sheet appears alphabetically. I
know this is not
the
best way to keep the data... and I am afraid that by
some mistake rows
might
get shifter and information for each patient will be
shifted as well. Is
there any way to prevent this kind of disaster from
happening? Somehow
"freezing" the information for each row for all the
columns, so that
individual patient's info cannot be shifted so easily?

Any suggestions?



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