Thread: How to link rows in Excel so they will stay together during sort?

In Excel I am trying to track body weights over time for hospital patients,
linked with specific interventions on the row below. I would like to link
these 2 rows of data permanently so that when I sort based on intervention,
the body weight data will stay with the intervention.

Excel doesn't work like this. Each row in a list is a distinct record.
Your intervention information should go in the same row as the patient
data, in the sortable database. You could construct a display worksheet
that linked two rows of cells to one row of the data worksheet.

- Jon
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hospital dietitian wrote:

> In Excel I am trying to track body weights over time for hospital patients,
> linked with specific interventions on the row below. I would like to link
> these 2 rows of data permanently so that when I sort based on intervention,
> the body weight data will stay with the intervention.