I think you'll need the helper column.

teetee209 wrote:

I have a very large data base (9,000 +) with a column of numbers such as:
K-8345-08; B-8346-08; O-8347-08. Is it possible to sort this data by number
only and ignore the letter and hyphen? Can this be done with out adding a
secondary column?
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Dave Peterson