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Hello

I have many columns (100 or so) in a spreadsheet, and I want to sort them
all by alphabetical order. Can this be done easily? The Data, Sort menu seems
to only sort one column at a time. I an using Excel 2003 on Windows XP.
Thanks very much.
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To the best of my knowledge that is not supported.
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Hello

I have many columns (100 or so) in a spreadsheet, and I want to sort them
all by alphabetical order. Can this be done easily? The Data, Sort menu seems
to only sort one column at a time. I an using Excel 2003 on Windows XP.
Thanks very much.

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Nope, you can sort on 3 columns at a time, just keep sorting from the
least significant 3 to the most significant 3 columns.

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Hello

I have many columns (100 or so) in a spreadsheet, and I want to sort them
all by alphabetical order. Can this be done easily? The Data, Sort menu seems
to only sort one column at a time. I an using Excel 2003 on Windows XP.
Thanks very much.


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Thank you very much for your help, I also got to the three column limit.

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Nope, you can sort on 3 columns at a time, just keep sorting from the
least significant 3 to the most significant 3 columns.

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Hello

I have many columns (100 or so) in a spreadsheet, and I want to sort them
all by alphabetical order. Can this be done easily? The Data, Sort menu seems
to only sort one column at a time. I an using Excel 2003 on Windows XP.
Thanks very much.



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You do understand that you may continue the sort on additional sets of
three columns to gain additional ordering of the data.

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Thank you very much for your help, I also got to the three column limit.

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Nope, you can sort on 3 columns at a time, just keep sorting from the
least significant 3 to the most significant 3 columns.

hello wrote:


Hello

I have many columns (100 or so) in a spreadsheet, and I want to sort them
all by alphabetical order. Can this be done easily? The Data, Sort menu seems
to only sort one column at a time. I an using Excel 2003 on Windows XP.
Thanks very much.






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