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Default Cells are not sorting correctly

Are your percentage values proper numbers, or are they text values
that just look like numbers? Or do you have a mixture of both?
Formatting will not change the values. Highlight the column and click
on the Increase decimal places icon a few times - proper numbers will
respond, but text values will not.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Dec 17, 7:19*pm, Daze3Daze
wrote:
Hi...I'm trying to sort a column of percentages from highest to lowest
I unhide and highlight all the columns (so they stay together) and then hit
Data/Sort/Descending
and then choose the column I want to sort
Problem is that the column is not sorting in any kind of order
I make sure that the column I'm trying to sort are all formatted as
percentages....I can't figure out why they're not sorting correctly
Oh...and if I try to sort in ascending order...same problem...they don't
sort correctly
It's as if it just mixed up the rows in some random order
Hope someone here can help me!!!

Thanks!