aplex, see if this will help http://www.cpearson.com/excel/SortByColor.htm

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"aplex" wrote in message
...
does anyone know if this is possible... rather unconveniently a person has
highlighted in red about 400/500 or so rows within a 12,000 row data
spread.
Apart from thinking how long that must of taken I know need to sort these,
is
there a way that anyone knows? I've tried looking into conditional
formating
and data sorting but couldn't find anything. Otherwise it's a trawl
through
the spreadsheet for me... thanks, A.