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I am having problems sorting my spreadsheet, I have never seen Excel act like
this before. I have a spreadsheet listing Building and Department Name. I
want to sort by building then Department name.

Excel is keeping the buildings together East and West but the Department
names are not in alpha order.
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It sounds as if there's a blank column in your table or the table range is
incorrect.

Try manually selecting all the data in the table and sorting.
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I am having problems sorting my spreadsheet, I have never seen Excel act like
this before. I have a spreadsheet listing Building and Department Name. I
want to sort by building then Department name.

Excel is keeping the buildings together East and West but the Department
names are not in alpha order.

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If I sort just by Department, it sorts perfectly. So what does that tell me?

"Kevin B" wrote:

It sounds as if there's a blank column in your table or the table range is
incorrect.

Try manually selecting all the data in the table and sorting.
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Kevin Backmann


"Erika" wrote:

I am having problems sorting my spreadsheet, I have never seen Excel act like
this before. I have a spreadsheet listing Building and Department Name. I
want to sort by building then Department name.

Excel is keeping the buildings together East and West but the Department
names are not in alpha order.

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