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    Need to sort groups of data and maintain rows.

    Ok here is what i need to to:

    I need to sort groups of data by a single cell in the group, compared to other single cells in other groups of data. The groups are always the same number of rows but vary in the number of rows. There is an example file below. The red is the company name and the green is what I need to sort the group by, as compared to the other groups. This example only has a few, the real file has thousands of groups. I want to sort the companies by the totals in green...they are currently in alphabetical order. There must be a way to do this without going the VBA option.
    Example 1.xlsx

    Please Help!

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    Re: Need to sort groups of data and maintain rows.

    Hi and welcome to the forum

    sorry, confused....
    The groups are always the same number of rows but vary in the number of rows
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    Sorry! I meant the columns stay the same and the rows will vary in ninber . see the example.

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    Re: Need to sort groups of data and maintain rows.

    OK, that makes sense now LOL.

    I started off by adding a helper column (AA) and copied this down...
    =IF(G7="",AA6,G7)

    But the problem comes in when you try to sort, that you have merged cells withing the range, and sorting doesnt play nice with merged cells

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    Re: Need to sort groups of data and maintain rows.

    Any additional help with this would be great. thanks

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