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Sorting / Numbering problem
I have an Excel worksheet that lists the chapter of a document, i.e.
the first column looks like this: 1 1.1 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 etc. now at some point I reach 1.10.1 Now I'd like to sort all my chapters, but 1.10 is sorted before 1.2. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks for any help, Gerben |
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Sorting / Numbering problem
What you really need to do is number them with leading zeros in each
section, like so: 1 1.01 1.01.01 1.01.02 1.01.03 Be careful that they don't get interpreted as dates - pre-format the cells as Text. Hope this helps. Pete On Oct 16, 12:35 pm, Gerben Dirksen wrote: I have an Excel worksheet that lists the chapter of a document, i.e. the first column looks like this: 1 1.1 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 etc. now at some point I reach 1.10.1 Now I'd like to sort all my chapters, but 1.10 is sorted before 1.2. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks for any help, Gerben |
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If you have already typed the values in, you can change them by using
Find & Replace (CTRL-H). Highlight the cells, CTRL-H, then: Find What: .1. Replace with: .01. Click Replace All. Repeat for other numbers. Hope this helps. Pete On Oct 16, 1:21 pm, Pete_UK wrote: What you really need to do is number them with leading zeros in each section, like so: 1 1.01 1.01.01 1.01.02 1.01.03 Be careful that they don't get interpreted as dates - pre-format the cells as Text. Hope this helps. Pete On Oct 16, 12:35 pm, Gerben Dirksen wrote: I have an Excel worksheet that lists the chapter of a document, i.e. the first column looks like this: 1 1.1 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 etc. now at some point I reach 1.10.1 Now I'd like to sort all my chapters, but 1.10 is sorted before 1.2. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks for any help, Gerben- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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