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Sorting numbers as Text
I frequently work with a lists of text data, some of which consists of digits
or digits + alpha characters. These are always formatted as tect fields. When I sort them i get a dialog box asking if I would rather sort digits as numbers or as text. Sorting as text provides the result I need, so I always select that and it works fine My question is, how can I skip having to answer this question over and over and over? Is there a configuration option thats says 'leave me alone - I know what I am doing' ? Thanks for any help. |
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I've never seen the message you refer to - what version of Excel is this?
Sheila "David M." wrote: I frequently work with a lists of text data, some of which consists of digits or digits + alpha characters. These are always formatted as tect fields. When I sort them i get a dialog box asking if I would rather sort digits as numbers or as text. Sorting as text provides the result I need, so I always select that and it works fine My question is, how can I skip having to answer this question over and over and over? Is there a configuration option thats says 'leave me alone - I know what I am doing' ? Thanks for any help. |
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Not just me then :)
Steve On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:00:02 +0100, Sheila D wrote: I've never seen the message you refer to - what version of Excel is this? Sheila "David M." wrote: I frequently work with a lists of text data, some of which consists of digits or digits + alpha characters. These are always formatted as tect fields. When I sort them i get a dialog box asking if I would rather sort digits as numbers or as text. Sorting as text provides the result I need, so I always select that and it works fine My question is, how can I skip having to answer this question over and over and over? Is there a configuration option thats says 'leave me alone - I know what I am doing' ? Thanks for any help. |
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Sheila D wrote:
I've never seen the message you refer to - what version of Excel is this? Sheila "David M." wrote: I frequently work with a lists of text data, some of which consists of digits or digits + alpha characters. These are always formatted as tect fields. When I sort them i get a dialog box asking if I would rather sort digits as numbers or as text. Sorting as text provides the result I need, so I always select that and it works fine My question is, how can I skip having to answer this question over and over and over? Is there a configuration option thats says 'leave me alone - I know what I am doing' ? Thanks for any help. Excel 2003 does this. I run into this when I have product numbers that have a leading zero. To keep the leading zero the cells must be formatted as text and the prompt comes up whenever you try to sort the column. gls858 |
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I'm using 2003 and I can't get this message even with leading 0's as you
describe - not aware of any options I've changed either............. "gls858" wrote: Sheila D wrote: I've never seen the message you refer to - what version of Excel is this? Sheila "David M." wrote: I frequently work with a lists of text data, some of which consists of digits or digits + alpha characters. These are always formatted as tect fields. When I sort them i get a dialog box asking if I would rather sort digits as numbers or as text. Sorting as text provides the result I need, so I always select that and it works fine My question is, how can I skip having to answer this question over and over and over? Is there a configuration option thats says 'leave me alone - I know what I am doing' ? Thanks for any help. Excel 2003 does this. I run into this when I have product numbers that have a leading zero. To keep the leading zero the cells must be formatted as text and the prompt comes up whenever you try to sort the column. gls858 |
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Not via the user interface.
But you could record a macro that sorts the data the way you want. And never be bother again.... David M. wrote: I frequently work with a lists of text data, some of which consists of digits or digits + alpha characters. These are always formatted as tect fields. When I sort them i get a dialog box asking if I would rather sort digits as numbers or as text. Sorting as text provides the result I need, so I always select that and it works fine My question is, how can I skip having to answer this question over and over and over? Is there a configuration option thats says 'leave me alone - I know what I am doing' ? Thanks for any help. -- Dave Peterson |
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Sheila D wrote:
I'm using 2003 and I can't get this message even with leading 0's as you describe - not aware of any options I've changed either............. "gls858" wrote: Sheila D wrote: I've never seen the message you refer to - what version of Excel is this? Sheila "David M." wrote: I frequently work with a lists of text data, some of which consists of digits or digits + alpha characters. These are always formatted as tect fields. When I sort them i get a dialog box asking if I would rather sort digits as numbers or as text. Sorting as text provides the result I need, so I always select that and it works fine My question is, how can I skip having to answer this question over and over and over? Is there a configuration option thats says 'leave me alone - I know what I am doing' ? Thanks for any help. Excel 2003 does this. I run into this when I have product numbers that have a leading zero. To keep the leading zero the cells must be formatted as text and the prompt comes up whenever you try to sort the column. gls858 Here's what I did. I formated cells in the column as text. Entered several numbers then selected the column went to Data Sort and a window pops up that says: The following sort key may not sort as expected because it contains some numbers formatted as text. What would you like to do? Sort anything that looks like number as a number Sort number and numbers stored as text separately Happens every time for me. gls858 |
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