I have three different lists of hyphenated numbers I need to sort together.
All three have the same formating. ex. #####-##-#. The left most numbers
can be 1 - 6 numbers. I have put all the lists in one column. Each set of
numbers is a different color to tell them apart. I have formated the column
as numbers. I tried formatting as text but it took out all the hyphens. The
reason for the sort is to find common numbers in each of the lists.

List one and two sort together correctly, but it seems the sort ignores the
last list. There are no blank rows between them. I select all the numbers
to sort.

The first two lists sort in the 1, 2, 3, order as,
53-19-0
56-95-1
58-38-8
62-56-6
64-67-5

the last list sorts as
100-41-4
100-42-5
10043-01-3
102-71-6
111-27-3
25322-68-3
36653-82-4

Either way is alright. -- I sorted six different lists together this way
before and they sorted correctly. I am using Excell 2002 with XP. I would
appreciate any help you can give.

Punkster