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Hi, We are trying to conduct a sort, however, the sort is not working.
This is what we are trying to sort: Jan 09-12 Jan 16-19 Jan 23-26 May 22-24 Jul 10-12 Jul 31-Aug 7 Aug 28-30 Feb 22-Mar 2 (Col. A) (Col. B) We made a custom sort with our fiscal year starting in Oct. And, for some reason, Feb will not follow the sort. Also, in Col. B, 2 cells are saying there is an error with the date text format, and we made those fields text cells. And, i am sure those 2 cells are not causing the problem (hopefully). Any suggestions would be quite helpful. |
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Try using the vlookup function to create a numeric value for you month codes:
Starting at cell A1 on a separate sheet (Sheet2 in this example) enter a table that contains the month codes in column A and numbers from 1-12 in column B: Jan 1 Feb 2 Mar 3 Apr 4 May 5 etc... Back on you sheet with the data, enter the following formula in column C starting in row 2 assuming that is where you data starts: =VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$12,2,FALSE) Copy/paste the formula for the entire range of data. Enter the following formula in column D starting again at row 2: =VALUE(LEFT(B2,2)) Copy/paste the formula for the entire range of data. This should give you two columns of numbers, C and D, that can be used to sort the data. Regards... "spfas" wrote: Hi, We are trying to conduct a sort, however, the sort is not working. This is what we are trying to sort: Jan 09-12 Jan 16-19 Jan 23-26 May 22-24 Jul 10-12 Jul 31-Aug 7 Aug 28-30 Feb 22-Mar 2 (Col. A) (Col. B) We made a custom sort with our fiscal year starting in Oct. And, for some reason, Feb will not follow the sort. Also, in Col. B, 2 cells are saying there is an error with the date text format, and we made those fields text cells. And, i am sure those 2 cells are not causing the problem (hopefully). Any suggestions would be quite helpful. |
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Thank you. We will try that.
ChristopherTri wrote: Try using the vlookup function to create a numeric value for you month codes: Starting at cell A1 on a separate sheet (Sheet2 in this example) enter a table that contains the month codes in column A and numbers from 1-12 in column B: Jan 1 Feb 2 Mar 3 Apr 4 May 5 etc... Back on you sheet with the data, enter the following formula in column C starting in row 2 assuming that is where you data starts: =VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$12,2,FALSE) Copy/paste the formula for the entire range of data. Enter the following formula in column D starting again at row 2: =VALUE(LEFT(B2,2)) Copy/paste the formula for the entire range of data. This should give you two columns of numbers, C and D, that can be used to sort the data. Regards... "spfas" wrote: Hi, We are trying to conduct a sort, however, the sort is not working. This is what we are trying to sort: Jan 09-12 Jan 16-19 Jan 23-26 May 22-24 Jul 10-12 Jul 31-Aug 7 Aug 28-30 Feb 22-Mar 2 (Col. A) (Col. B) We made a custom sort with our fiscal year starting in Oct. And, for some reason, Feb will not follow the sort. Also, in Col. B, 2 cells are saying there is an error with the date text format, and we made those fields text cells. And, i am sure those 2 cells are not causing the problem (hopefully). Any suggestions would be quite helpful. |
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