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In Excel 2007 is there a way to sort a column and have the sort ignore
leading "the" and "a"? For example, I have a list of titles and many of
them start with "The" as in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" or a
leading "a" as in "A View to a Kill". I'd like to sort these and have
it ignore these leading words so that the first one gets sorted into the
M's and the second into the V's.

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