Thanks, Duke. Your advice worked like a charm. Much obliged.

"Duke Carey" wrote:

Somewhere in the data you have a merged cell.

Work on a copy of the data. Select the data and use
Format-Cells-Alignment and uncehck the Merge Cells checkbox. Then you'll
be able to sort

"Buckskin" wrote:

scanned part and entered part of contact list alpha in Excel 2002. Need to
sort by state which is separate column. Keep getting error message: merged
cells must be same size. Can't see any difference. How to find out what
cells are different? Or is there a different way to sort this list than
using the "Sort" function?

Thanks!