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vezerid vezerid is offline
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Default sorting contents from right to left

It would have helped, you know, if you had also shown how you would
expect them to be sorted. I assume that you want 12345 to be sorted as
if it was 54321? If so, use the following formula next to your data
(assuming start from A2).

=SUMPRODUCT(MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),
1)*10^(ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2)))-1))

Sort by this column.

HTH
Kostis Vezerides

On Jun 7, 3:31 pm, Kim wrote:
Do you know of a way to sort contents of a column from right to left? They
are formatted as text fields, even though their contents are numbers but they
are not consistent lengths of numbers. Someone said I should change the
language to Arabic or something?
12345
347
5443
7654
12
3452