In Excel it would help a lot to be able to sort rows by color

There are many times when i highlight rows in an excel spreadsheet and
sometimes I use different colors say for example green for "wins", red for
"losses" and blue for "in progress".

If you didnt have those "words" in a separate column but did have the row
color coded with these colors, there is no way to sort the column by color
and that would be very helpful if you could do that.

Any thoughts?

Jeff Watkins
[email protected]
Area Sales Rep - New England

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See this two sites

http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/SortByColor.htm

You can use this add-in to filter on color
http://www.rondebruin.nl/easyfilter.htm


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"Jeff Watkins" <Jeff [email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> There are many times when i highlight rows in an excel spreadsheet and
> sometimes I use different colors say for example green for "wins", red for
> "losses" and blue for "in progress".
>
> If you didnt have those "words" in a separate column but did have the row
> color coded with these colors, there is no way to sort the column by color
> and that would be very helpful if you could do that.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Jeff Watkins
> [email protected]
> Area Sales Rep - New England
>
> ----------------
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> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
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Check out: http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html

"Jeff Watkins" wrote:

> There are many times when i highlight rows in an excel spreadsheet and
> sometimes I use different colors say for example green for "wins", red for
> "losses" and blue for "in progress".
>
> If you didnt have those "words" in a separate column but did have the row
> color coded with these colors, there is no way to sort the column by color
> and that would be very helpful if you could do that.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Jeff Watkins
> [email protected]
> Area Sales Rep - New England
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
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> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc

Rather than color the rows manually, I would put codes ("W", "L" and
something for "In Progress" in the example given) in the first column
and use Conditional Formatting to color the rows based on the codes.
(What can I say? I'm lazy.) Then I'd perform a sort on that column,
basing the order on what I'd like to see first.

Thanks for the tips... I have used the conditioning formats before, I just
dont understand why Microsoft hasnt built the color sorting into excel, seems
like it would be helpful to have that.

I am trying the 3rd party addins right now and trying to figure out a
workaround, thanks again to all for the help.

Jeff

"Mark Lincoln" wrote:

> Rather than color the rows manually, I would put codes ("W", "L" and
> something for "In Progress" in the example given) in the first column
> and use Conditional Formatting to color the rows based on the codes.
> (What can I say? I'm lazy.) Then I'd perform a sort on that column,
> basing the order on what I'd like to see first.
>
>

Jeff,
I don't know of any third party add-ins that will sort conditional formatted cells -
my commercial add-in won't do that, but it does sort conventionally added colors...
http://www.officeletter.com/blink/specialsort.html
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA


"Jeff Watkins" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Thanks for the tips... I have used the conditioning formats before, I just
dont understand why Microsoft hasnt built the color sorting into excel, seems
like it would be helpful to have that.

I am trying the 3rd party addins right now and trying to figure out a
workaround, thanks again to all for the help.

Jeff

"Mark Lincoln" wrote:

> Rather than color the rows manually, I would put codes ("W", "L" and
> something for "In Progress" in the example given) in the first column
> and use Conditional Formatting to color the rows based on the codes.
> (What can I say? I'm lazy.) Then I'd perform a sort on that column,
> basing the order on what I'd like to see first.
>
>

I would like to try that program you have created, can you email it to me or
how do I go about taking a closer look at it?

Thanks for the help.

Jeff

"Jeff Watkins" wrote:

> There are many times when i highlight rows in an excel spreadsheet and
> sometimes I use different colors say for example green for "wins", red for
> "losses" and blue for "in progress".
>
> If you didnt have those "words" in a separate column but did have the row
> color coded with these colors, there is no way to sort the column by color
> and that would be very helpful if you could do that.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Jeff Watkins
> [email protected]
> Area Sales Rep - New England
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc

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Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA



"Jeff Watkins" wrote in message...
I would like to try that program you have created, can you email it to me or
how do I go about taking a closer look at it?
Thanks for the help.
Jeff



"Jeff Watkins" wrote:
> There are many times when i highlight rows in an excel spreadsheet and
> sometimes I use different colors say for example green for "wins", red for
> "losses" and blue for "in progress".
>
> If you didnt have those "words" in a separate column but did have the row
> color coded with these colors, there is no way to sort the column by color
> and that would be very helpful if you could do that.>
> Any thoughts?>
> Jeff Watkins
> [email protected]
> Area Sales Rep - New England