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Peo Sjoblom
 
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Default Sorting Numerical Values...

If you only use MB you can use numbers instead of text and use a custom
format like

0 "Mb"

then it will sort as

10 Mb
10 Mb
114 Mb
128 Mb
128 Mb
1000 Mb
1000 Mb

otherwise you need to use a help column that will extract the numeric part
and then select both columns and sort by the help column


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Peo Sjoblom

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"Smohrman" wrote in message
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I'll probably slap myself when someone shows me how to do this, but I'm
stuck...

I've got a series of values in a column as follows:

10 Mb
10 Mb
1000 Mb
1000 Mb
114 Mb
128 Mb
128 Mb

Obviously 1000 mb is more than 10 mb, but it sorts as second in the list
because it starts with a "1". How do I tell Excel to sort by the entire
numerical value instead of the first number?

Thanks in advance :-D