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Data in table is not sorted properly, its scrambled at 10 min mark.

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    Data in table is not sorted properly, its scrambled at 10 min mark.

    As you can see, the output gets messed up when 4 decimal places starts.

    (Scroll down to the 10 minute mark in the file.)

    Is it even possible to have a macro sort this out?

    Note, not every table output is the exactly the same making this issue even harder to solve.
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    Re: Intense table scrambled issue - great puzzle challenge

    Quote Originally Posted by Destroy View Post
    Is it even possible to have a macro sort this out?
    What constitutes 'sort this out'?

    You have cells with content. What do you want to do - delete what doesn't fit, hide what doesn't fit, reformat the content so everything fits, change the cell widths so everything fits, something else?
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    Re: Intense table scrambled issue - great puzzle challenge

    Guess by looking at the data I thought it would be pretty obvious.

    Like I said, scroll down to the 10 minute mark and you will see the issue I'm having.

    I need the table sorted out so all the data is properly in its columns and rows.

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    Re: Intense table scrambled issue - great puzzle challenge

    You're kind of assuming we know what it should look like. Make the columns wider, the font smaller, decrease the cell margins, ...
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    Re: Intense table scrambled issue - great puzzle challenge

    I could care less what the format is or looks like, I just want the data straightened out to the proper rows and columns.

    It should look like the first 10 rows all the way down. How can you not see this?

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    Re: Intense table scrambled issue - great puzzle challenge

    Quote Originally Posted by Destroy View Post
    Guess by looking at the data I thought it would be pretty obvious

    Like I said, scroll down to the 10 minute mark and you will see the issue I'm having.
    Nothing is 'obvious'. Sure, I downloaded & examined your file (how else do you suppose I knew what to ask?) but there's nothing 'obvious' about:
    I need the table sorted out so all the data is properly in its columns and rows.
    Help yourself by answering the questions you've been asked. We're not mind-readers.

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    Re: Intense table scrambled issue - great puzzle challenge

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    Re: Intense table scrambled issue - great puzzle challenge

    Quote Originally Posted by macropod View Post
    Nothing is 'obvious'. Sure, I downloaded & examined your file (how else do you suppose I knew what to ask?) but there's nothing 'obvious' about:

    Help yourself by answering the questions you've been asked. We're not mind-readers.
    Wow, if all you people can not see the pattern in the beginning and notice that at around the 10.1 min. mark there is a mess of the data on table, I do not know what else to say. I don't care about font, color, width, etc.. I want all the data to be in the proper sorted order.

    I really don't know how else to explain it. The data in the table before the 10.2 min mark and after the 11.9 min mark is normal. All the data in the table between those areas are wrongly placed and scrambled.

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    Re: Intense table scrambled issue - great puzzle challenge

    Quote Originally Posted by Destroy View Post
    The data in the table before the 10.2 min mark and after the 11.9 min mark is normal. All the data in the table between those areas are wrongly placed and scrambled.
    OK, so your data are scrambled. How is one supposed to determine programmatically which bits go where? And for all the other tables you say you have that aren't "exactly the same"? Rather like unscrambling an omelete IMHO. Evidently, the data come from a file generated outside Word. You'd do far better to resolve the layout issues at the source than trying to clean them up afterwards.

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    Re: Data in table is not sorted properly, its scrambled at 10 min mark.

    Paul, I leave you to figure out how to make this table look the way it should obviously look. Good luck.

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    Re: Intense table scrambled issue - great puzzle challenge

    Quote Originally Posted by macropod View Post
    OK, so your data are scrambled. How is one supposed to determine programmatically which bits go where? And for all the other tables you say you have that aren't "exactly the same"? Rather like unscrambling an omelete IMHO. Evidently, the data come from a file generated outside Word. You'd do far better to resolve the layout issues at the source than trying to clean them up afterwards.
    That is why I stated my initial thread title; I'm guessing the output source has some kind of pattern or logic to the scramble. All the numbers are indeed there, they are simply shifted to the side or down causing it to be messed up for several rows.

    I've put 2 examples in an Excel file as its easier to manage and see.
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    Re: Data in table is not sorted properly, its scrambled at 10 min mark.

    Again, you haven't answered the question. I cannot tell for sure which of your scrambled data goes where, so how am I (or anyone else) supposed to address that programmatically? What are the rules for unscrambling?
    Quite obviously, you're importing the data from somewhere and they're being exported from somewhere else. That somewhere else is where the problem needs to be resolved, not after the mess has been made.

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