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I have an excel worksheet with addresses in the form of "1234 Some St."
I would like to sort by street name.

Any solution?

Thanks in advance


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Chuck

A simple method is to break out the addresses into separate columns then sort
on the street name column.

Select the column with the address(make sure you have a few empty columns to
the right of the data column).

DataText to ColumnsDelimited by space and finish.

Select all the columns and sort on street name.

Best to leave them split out that way. Most apps you export to like them in
separate cells.

You can stick them back into one cell after the sort if you wish.

=A1 & " " and B1 & " " & C1


Gord Dibben Excel MVP



On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:07:09 -0700, "Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot
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I have an excel worksheet with addresses in the form of "1234 Some St."
I would like to sort by street name.

Any solution?

Thanks in advance


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I personally prefer Gord's suggestion, but just as an alternative,........in
a helper column put........

=MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)+1,99)

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3




"Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com wrote in message
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I have an excel worksheet with addresses in the form of "1234 Some St."
I would like to sort by street name.

Any solution?

Thanks in advance




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To add to Gord's suggestion, when using TTC, you can leave the original data
column *untouched*, therefore eliminating the need to "rejoin" the
separated, "sorting" columns.

In the third window of the TTC wizard, there's a "Destination" box, with the
address defaulted to that of the original column.
Simply change that to an adjoining column, and the original will remain as
is.

Then just include the original in the sort range, and you'll then have a
choice to keep or discard all or just some of those separated columns.

BTW, you should follow Gord's advice and use the "split" data columns ...
that's just good "practice".
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"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
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Chuck

A simple method is to break out the addresses into separate columns then

sort
on the street name column.

Select the column with the address(make sure you have a few empty columns

to
the right of the data column).

DataText to ColumnsDelimited by space and finish.

Select all the columns and sort on street name.

Best to leave them split out that way. Most apps you export to like them

in
separate cells.

You can stick them back into one cell after the sort if you wish.

=A1 & " " and B1 & " " & C1


Gord Dibben Excel MVP



On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:07:09 -0700, "Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs

dot
com wrote:

I have an excel worksheet with addresses in the form of "1234 Some St."
I would like to sort by street name.

Any solution?

Thanks in advance



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"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
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Chuck

A simple method is to break out the addresses into separate columns then
sort
on the street name column.

Select the column with the address(make sure you have a few empty columns
to
the right of the data column).

DataText to ColumnsDelimited by space and finish.

Select all the columns and sort on street name.

Best to leave them split out that way. Most apps you export to like them
in
separate cells.

You can stick them back into one cell after the sort if you wish.

=A1 & " " and B1 & " " & C1


Gord Dibben Excel MVP



On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:07:09 -0700, "Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs
dot
com wrote:

I have an excel worksheet with addresses in the form of "1234 Some St."
I would like to sort by street name.

Any solution?

Thanks in advance


Thanks again. It worked, except I can never delete the columns with the
numeric and alpha data. Its not a real problem.




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Gord Dibben
 
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Chuck

See RD's post for further refinements to TTC which I neglected to point out.

Also, if you have gone with the "splitting" and want the data placed back in
one cell using the formula I posted, just select the column and CopyPaste
SpecialValuesOKEsc.

Then delete the original split-out columns.


Gord


On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:14:43 -0700, "Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot
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Thanks again. It worked, except I can never delete the columns with the
numeric and alpha data. Its not a real problem.


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