How can I sort in groups of 3 rows?

How can I sort in groups of 3 rows? I have client infor in 5 columns and a
sixth column for a state abbr. to sort by. In the column format I used center
across section unstead of merging 3 columns to get excell to sort the entire
row when sorting the States. This worked well, when each client had only one
row. Now each client has three rows and 5x3 and 1x1 columns. How can I group
the rows without merging?

Blue

First of all, if you select all the columns prior to sorting on one of them
the entire row will stay together.

Second you can keep three rows together only if you have data common to all
three rows.

e.g.

qwerty row 1
row 2
row 3
asdfgh row 1
row 2
row 3

You can keep row 1, 2 and 3 togther if you replicate qwerty in the other two
rows.

Select column A then F5>Special>Blanks>OK

In active cell type = sign then point to cell above and hit CTRL + ENTER.

Copy/paste special>Values>OK>Esc.

Sort on column A.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP


On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:00:02 -0800, "Blue" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>How can I sort in groups of 3 rows? I have client infor in 5 columns and a
>sixth column for a state abbr. to sort by. In the column format I used center
>across section unstead of merging 3 columns to get excell to sort the entire
>row when sorting the States. This worked well, when each client had only one
>row. Now each client has three rows and 5x3 and 1x1 columns. How can I group
>the rows without merging?