[mso] Excel 2000: Forcing a specialized sort order? Possible?

Hello everyone. I am wanting to sort a list of alpha codes (either 
single letter, double letter, or triple letter) in such a way they are 
indeed
A
B
C
D
E
....
AA
AB
AC
AD
....
AAA
AAB
AAC
....
ZZZ

Right now, when I do a sort, it want to clump all the "A"s together 
(yes, I understand why) but that means the sort results in something like:
A
AA
AAA
B
BA
BAA
C
CA
CAA
<and so on>

Instead of
A
B
C
...
AA
AB
AC
BA
BB
BC
ZZ
AAA
AAB
AAC
...
and so on until
ZZZ
The last sort order is the one I trying to get Excel to do it in.

What (if anything) can I do to force my preferred sort order?  Just add 
two spaces in front of single letters and add a single space in front of 
the double letters? As simple as that?

Thank you.

Robert
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