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Neeraj
 
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When I am sorting a column by rows, the first row cell is being treated as a
column header, why is that
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When you select Data-Sort, there is a choice at the bottom of the page that
reads

MY LIST HAS ...

You obviously have HEADER ROW selected.

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When I am sorting a column by rows, the first row cell is being treated as a
column header, why is that
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Excel does its best to guess what your data is and what your header is.

You could help excel guess better by giving the headers a different
format--bold???

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When I am sorting a column by rows, the first row cell is being treated as a
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