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Default Please help - sorting list of numbers

Hello,

I am not so good with using excel and nobody in my office can figure out
what I'm doing wrong.

I am trying to sort a list of folders first by Box Letter and then by Folder
Number. I want my list to look like this:
Box Folder
A 1
A 2
A 3
B 1
B 2
B 3
and so on.

But whenever I sort the information, the numbers are all out of order. My
list looks more like 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 21, 22, 3, etc. I know if I were to
insert a 0 before each single digit number, it would sort correctly, however
there are several thousand entries on this list and I don't want to go
through and add several thousand 0's. I think it has something to do with
the formatting of my columns, but I've changed it to everything available and
still it sorts incorrectly. What else can I do?