Excel should let me sort by highlight color.
 

We use color coding in our spreadsheets to track different criteria. It
would be useful to be able to sort by highlighted color.

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Excel should let me sort by highlight color.
 

Until your idea is implemented use this function by Chip Pearson.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/SortByColor.htm

Note the caveat at page bottom about CF colored cells.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:15:02 -0700, DH wrote:

We use color coding in our spreadsheets to track different criteria. It
would be useful to be able to sort by highlighted color.

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