I have a list which has a date column. I want to sort ascending order but I
want the sort order to reflect my financial year: 2 Feb to 2 Feb rather than
from 1 Jan to 31 Dec. How can I specify my own date order rather than the
default?

Cheers

You could add another column and enter this formula

=CHOOSE(TEXT(A1,"m"),12,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11)

This will enter 1 for the month of Feb, 2 for the month of March and so
on.

Then sort by the new column

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This is great and works for the months. Any way I can get the days to be
included in the sort?

"VBA Noob" wrote:


You could add another column and enter this formula

=CHOOSE(TEXT(A1,"m"),12,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11)

This will enter 1 for the month of Feb, 2 for the month of March and so
on.

Then sort by the new column

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1. You don't need a complicated formula to get the index numbers of the
month (I can't see the original post)

=MONTH(A1)

will give you the same numbers without having the workbook being volatile

use a third column and

=DAY(A1)

then select all 3 columns, then sort by first month help column, then the
day help column and finally the original column



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"Murray" wrote in message
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This is great and works for the months. Any way I can get the days to be
included in the sort?

"VBA Noob" wrote:


You could add another column and enter this formula

=CHOOSE(TEXT(A1,"m"),12,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11)

This will enter 1 for the month of Feb, 2 for the month of March and so
on.

Then sort by the new column

VBA Noob


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