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    Numerical sorting a group of data?

    Good Day guy

    Am after some advice of sorting so cells which have formula in them to make a number I want to try and organize these in numerical order?

    Thanks in advance
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    Re: Numerical sorting a group of data?

    Please post a sample workbook with some typical data and formula, indicating what you need to achieve. If, for example, you use LEFT, MID and/or RIGHT to concatenate elements into a "number", that "number" will actually be text that looks like a number. You can use a double negative to coerce that text number into a true number, or multiply the value by 1 (one), or add 0 (zero) to it.

    That should give you a numeric value that you can sort on.


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    Re: Numerical sorting a group of data?

    Hi TMS

    This is the sheet which is like the one am trying to organize, many thanks for your advice.

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    Re: Numerical sorting a group of data?

    I think you have a problem. The formula depends on values in column H which, in this case, are "hidden" using formatting. Each formula relates to four cells, one above the row, one on the row, and two below the row.

    Can't see how you can possibly sort data structured like this.

    Sorry.

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    Re: Numerical sorting a group of data?

    okay thanks for the advice

    what if the formula wasnt like this but was for all difference cells to each other?

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    Re: Numerical sorting a group of data?

    If each formula related to data on its own row, that wouldn't be a problem. But I don't know what the process is for populating those cells. It's an unusual setup.

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    Re: Numerical sorting a group of data?

    Okay mate this is the exact sheet ive been working on and I need to sort the data in the points row to numerical

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