steveo,
I'm having a very hard time picturing this. The possible solution depends
on several things like what might be similar in the matrix to sorted to match
the column. There's also a question in my mind because the number of rows in
the example ranges you gave don't match

If you'd like to email me a sample workbook, I'll look at it and try to give
you some help with it. email to: 2kmaro at dslr.net (turn that into a
regular @ address format).

"steveo" wrote:

Hi, I'm trying to sort a range of cells so that the rows match a column
of cells outside of the range. I've got excel 2004 and
appleworks 6.28 so i can use either to do this and i'm at a total loss
at this point. anybody have a formula that will do this? any help i'd
really appreciate. Thanks!!
Example would be the rows in k6:p204 have to be "sorted" so they
exactly match the data in b5:b291.