The zeros may be in as text - select an unused cell (empty & formatted as
general), copy it, select the cells in question, use edit/paste special,
select Add. Sort should be OK now.

Bob Umlas
Excel MVP

"jimk" wrote in message
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when i sort descending i get the following results, i have tried every
setting i can think of and cannot get it to sort correctly in 2000 the
workbook was created in 2003
0
0
0
87.3
87.1
75.2
67.3
54.2