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Mike H Mike H is offline
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Default Sorting negative numbers?

Hi,

Do you get a 'Sort Warning' when trying to do your sort?
If yes then select 'Sort anything that looks like a number as a number' and
try again. Excel should manage to sort them even if they are text.

If they are text and you want to change then to numbers put a one (1) in a
cell and copy it. Select your 'numbers' and then
Edit|Paste special
Select multiply and click OK.

Mike

Mike


"pearce" wrote:

I'm trying to sort a column of negative and positive numbers in excel 2003
but nothing seems to be happening. I've tried changing the type of cell but
haven't got anywhere, can anyone help?

e.g. after sorting I still have:

-6
-4
-2
-2
-6
0 etc