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Default Sorting more than 3 columns

Sorry for what undoubtedly a dumb question. I have a large spreadsheet that
I'm trying to create a macro that will sort the data (12,000+ rows) using a
sort with 4 keys. The following code gets me 3 columns - but will not
support the addition of a "Key4".

When I do it manually it's a two stage process - first, sort on the entire
spreadsheet on the first 3 columns - next stage is to then manually page
through the spreadsheet and performing a "mini-sort" on columns 2, 3 and 4
whenever I see the value of column 1 has changed.

I'm thinking I'll need to sort on the column 1 - then loop through the
spreadsheet identifying to identify the first row in which a new value
appears in column one and continue on to identify the last row in which that
same value appears. Then execute a sort on a range defined by the first /
last row identified. Unfortunately, I'm brand new to this VB stuff and
simply don't know how to do this.

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

SpaceNorman

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Sub NewSort()
Range("SortRange").Select
Selection.Sort Key1:=Range("W5"), Order1:=xlAscending, Key2:=Range("X5") _
, Order2:=xlAscending, Key3:=Range("Y5"), Order3:=xlAscending,
Header:=xlGuess _
, OrderCustom:=1, MatchCase:=False, Orientation:=xlTopToBottom, _
DataOption1:=xlSortNormal, DataOption2:=xlSortTextAsNumbers,
DataOption3 _
:=xlSortNormal
Range("A1").Select
End Sub


 
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