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    Sort by Highest Frequency

    I have thousands of values that I'm trying to organize together. I need to sort to find similar values, and order them from highest to lowest frequency.

    Example:

    www.google.com
    www.google.com
    www.google.com/maps
    www.yahoo.com
    www.yahoo.com/sports

    I need to filter and sort to group like URLs together, then order from high to low.

    Thank you!!

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    Re: Sort by Highest Frequency

    I'm not clear what you're asking for.

    Have you got a file containing these thousands of values? If so why not use Excel's standard sorting functionality.

    Not sure why you've posted links to web sites. Are you wanting to grab tables of data from the sites, in which case you'll need to be more specific.
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    Re: Sort by Highest Frequency

    First use TextToColumns to parse your data to an empty column.

    Step 1: Delimited
    Step 2: Check "Other" and enter / in the box.
    Step 3: Change destination range to vacant column. In the Data Preview, with the exception of the first column which should be left as "General", select each column in turn and set the radio button at the top to "do not import column (skip)"

    Next, in another empty column enter the formula,
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    Note that A:A should refer to the column holding the original list, A2 should refer to the first entry. Fill the formula down to the end of the list.

    Sort first by the text to columns output, then by the formula results in descending order.

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