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Bob Phillips Bob Phillips is offline
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Default sort on character position

Add this formula to an adjacent cell

=MID(A2,3,1)&MID(A2,5,1)

and sort both columns by the second column

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Bob

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"Jimpm98" wrote in message
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I have a six digit part number that I need to sort by the 3rd digit and the
5th digit. Is this possible?