[mso] Re: excel sort problem
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:21:10 -0500
Wow Jim...I have never seen Excel sort that way, not since I started using
it with version 5. I don't even see any rhyme or reason to the sort you
show below. Why would 21 and 35 follow 14, but then 20 and 30 follow 9? I
have NEVER seen anything like that.
In my experience, as long as I make sure the formatting on my numbers is
correct and I don't have any weird spaces in there, the sorting is always
correct.
Try this. Go to one of those spreadsheets where the numbers aren't sorting
correctly and do this.
Put a 1 in any blank cell and copy it, then highlight the whole list of
numbers and choose Paste Special from the Edit menu.....put a tick beside
Multiply in the Paste Special box and click OK....now sort those numbers
again and tell me if they sort correctly.
Linda
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:34 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] excel sort problem
this question may not be new, but, I need to know how to MAKE excel sort
CORRECTLY.
ever since 97 (possibly before that) I've had problems with excel not
doing sorts correctly.
If I sort a spreadsheet (100+ rows, not sure at what point it becomes a
problem), I almost always get a partially correct sort.
If I ask it to sort based on a number or text field the result is always
that the sheet is in order, but in at least 2 groups, such as:
1
2
3
10
14
21
35
4
6
9
20
30
This happens weather I sort based on numbers, letters or alpha-numeric
fields.
I've tried doing it in 2k several times with similar results. The only
common thing is that the worksheets were always created in 97. This
happens on multiple machines running 98, 98se, nt4.0, 2000, and XPpro,
with excel 97 and 2000.....
I'm hopeing that since it's been a few years that there is an answer /
fix for this problem...
I've also tried inserting a new column, setting the propertiy to TEXT
only and even typing the data into the new column again, and also tried
doing a paste special data only, I still get bad sorts...
Does anybody have a fix for this?
I don't have a choice of what program to use, 97 and 2k versions are
what's on the machines in the office...
Thanks
-Jim-
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