Sorry, I should've specified. I have only a year listed, so most of the look
like this:

XXXXXXXX (1993)

etc.

The formula you provided results in an error, perhaps it needs adjustment
for the four-digit year.

"Mike H" wrote:

Hi,

It would have helped to see your data layout but you may be able to extract
the dates to a helper column and sort using that.

=MID(A1,11,9)*1

Would extract a 9 character date start at position 11 in A1. You would have
to format this as a date.

Mike

"jmj713" wrote:

If I have a list which contains a date, but that date isn't at the beginning
of the line, so when sorting, the list can only be sorted A-Z. Any way to
make it recognize the dates?