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Sort text list by character length - how?
Hi!
I am an excel newbie. I have a text list of last names that I need to sort by character length. Not alphabetically, I know how to do that, but by number of letters in the name. Example, if I have the following list LAW OROZCO MCALLISTER LUGO DAVIES SHOEMAKER MADISON RUTHERFORD NEWSOME MAGEE I would need it sorted to LAW LUGO MAGEE DAVIES OROZCO MADISON NEWSOME SHOEMAKER MCALLISTER RUTHERFORD I have roughly 75,000 names I am working with, in bunches of 200, so being able to sort by character length will help me tremendously and speed things up. Any help with this is appreciated greatly! chris |
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Sort text list by character length - how?
Maybe you could use a helper column with a bunch of formulas that return the
length of the string. Then sort your data by that column. =len(a1) will return the number of characters in a1. masterdiablo13 wrote: Hi! I am an excel newbie. I have a text list of last names that I need to sort by character length. Not alphabetically, I know how to do that, but by number of letters in the name. Example, if I have the following list LAW OROZCO MCALLISTER LUGO DAVIES SHOEMAKER MADISON RUTHERFORD NEWSOME MAGEE I would need it sorted to LAW LUGO MAGEE DAVIES OROZCO MADISON NEWSOME SHOEMAKER MCALLISTER RUTHERFORD I have roughly 75,000 names I am working with, in bunches of 200, so being able to sort by character length will help me tremendously and speed things up. Any help with this is appreciated greatly! chris -- Dave Peterson |
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Sort text list by character length - how?
If this si something you have to do frequently and don't want to use a
helper column, you might consider Jim Cone's fine commercial Add in called "SpecialSort". It's available at http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primi...e/products.php Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "masterdiablo13" wrote in message . 97.131... Hi! I am an excel newbie. I have a text list of last names that I need to sort by character length. Not alphabetically, I know how to do that, but by number of letters in the name. Example, if I have the following list LAW OROZCO MCALLISTER LUGO DAVIES SHOEMAKER MADISON RUTHERFORD NEWSOME MAGEE I would need it sorted to LAW LUGO MAGEE DAVIES OROZCO MADISON NEWSOME SHOEMAKER MCALLISTER RUTHERFORD I have roughly 75,000 names I am working with, in bunches of 200, so being able to sort by character length will help me tremendously and speed things up. Any help with this is appreciated greatly! chris |
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