On 11/8/2007 9:19 AM, Peo Sjoblom went clickity clack on the keyboard
and produced this interesting bit of text:
No, you would need a help column that will remove these characters

if the list starts in A2 you can use this in B2

=IF(LEFT(A2,4)="The ",SUBSTITUTE(A2,LEFT(A2,4),""),IF(LEFT(A2,2)=" A
",SUBSTITUTE(A2,LEFT(A2,2),""),A2))

copy down as long as needed and sort by the help column

the above will take care of A and The

Thank you muchly!

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