On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:23:22 -0700 (PDT), joeu2004 wrote:

I suspect that whoever wrote the help page was thinking of the
__numbers__ 0 through 9.

Looks like our messages crossed.

It is somewhat surprising that this incorrectly published sort order has not been corrected. It has been noted in the past. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/sorting.htm

Also, there are interesting articles found doing a web search on collating algorithms. New stuff to me; I always just thought "sort order" and not about all the other thinking that goes into developing a sort order.