Thanks everyone. This was very helpful,
rod.

"Sean Timmons" wrote:

The only fix I can give you is to unmerge the rows. Then, just enter the
person's name in each of the rows. That would fix it.

Suggestion would be to highlight the column and uncheck merge cells. Then,
in the first blank row, enter = and reference the cell just above. Copy this
formula and do Edit - Go to - Special - Blanks and paste. Copy the column
again and paste-special values to get rid of the formulas...

"rodchar" wrote:

hi all,

i have a simple spreadsheet as follows:

excel row,name,type
1,john,email
2, , phone
3,cathy,pager
4, , cell phone

I want to sort by type.
The problem is 2 rows represent a person. The column Name is merged, which
takes up 2 rows. But the Column type can have either merged cells or
individual cells.

Anyone know of different ways to solve this?

thanks,
rodchar