On Mar 18, 3:42*pm, Ron Rosenfeld wrote:
In Excel 2007, the relevant HELP topic is "Default sort
orders". I found it by searching for "sort order" on HELP.

Aha! Yes, I find the same Help entry in XL2003. Thanks for that.

But according to the XL2003 "sort order" help page:

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Text and text that includes numbers are sorted in the
following order:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (space) ! " # $ % & ( ) * , . / :
; ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~ + < = A B C D E F G H I J
K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Clearly, ="A""Z" should and does return FALSE. So the table is in
ascending order.

So I still find it odd that ="2""" returns TRUE, based on the above
table.