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Sort as "reference column"

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    Sort as "reference column"

    Column A has a random sorted list of text values, column D also consists of same values but not in the way sorted as column A. What I want is to sort Column D just like Column A but with the adjacent columns to the right (Column E,F also) should sort together with column D.

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    Hi
    One way would be to use helper columns. Start by adding a column before or after column A, in that helper column enter the numbers 1,2,3....etc to the last row, select both your columns and sort your text column alphabetically, now insert another helper column before column D, select columns D,E and F and sort again aphabetically, now copy and paste the first helper column in the second helper column, then select columns D,E and F along with your helper column and sort by the helper column in ascending order, do the same with column A and its helper column. When you delete your helper columns, column D should be the same as column A.

    Hope this helps!
    JG

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    thanks for this nice tip, I really like the idea of helper columns. But considering this process being repeated many times like once in every 15-30 rows and it goes until something 2500 in row length, it seems quite a lot of work. Still something like a formula would do a great job.

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