Comments on: Sorting numbers and text cells also removing blanks using array formula in excel

By: Oscar

Oscar — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:51:28 +0000

Brian Minton,

This is what I get:

By: Brian Minton

Brian Minton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:39:32 +0000

although 'ab' becomes 'ab', it's still sorted differently. The comment form isn't allowing me to correctly format what I'm trying to write.

By: Brian Minton

Brian Minton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:37:19 +0000

and for shorter multi-line inputs, it concatenates them:
'ab'
becomes
'ab'

By: Brian Minton

Brian Minton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:35:41 +0000

Also, the formula failed to work with the entire text of the United States Declaration of Independence in a single input cell. It just puts #VALUE in every output

By: Brian Minton

Brian Minton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:33:09 +0000

here's the same data, but easier to read:
List
a
aaa
1
2
b
777
9
c
10
11
1.00E+88
=A17+1
e
g
f

Sorted
1
2
9
10
11
777
1E+88
a
aaa
aaa
b
c
e
f
g

Note the duplication of the aaa entry, and the non-inclusion of the text entry starting with =

By: Brian Minton

Brian Minton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:30:45 +0000

This doesn't work correctly with text starting with an equal sign:
(Yes, I know it's a pathological case)

1) Enter some normal data in the List range
2) Enter a text string starting with a single quote and an equal sign (or, format a cell as Text and put a formula in it)
3) notice duplicate entries in the output not present in the input

List Sorted
a 1
aaa 2
1 9
2 10
b 11
777 777
9 1E+88
c a
10 aaa
11 aaa
1.00E+88 b
=A17+1 c
e e
g f
f g

By: Oscar

Oscar — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:13:10 +0000

baum schausberger,

Excel 2007:
1. Select cell range
2. Right click on cell range
3. Click Sort...
4. Click Custom sort
5. Click options...
6. Select Orientation: Left to right
7. Click OK
8. Select a row
9. Click OK

By: baum schausberger

baum schausberger — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:08:03 +0000

I don't see in your page my problem. I have a matrix 5x100 I tried wiht data-sort..etc. I need to sort by row, nothing can be change by columnns, so data-sort change one row, when I tried the next, the first one come back to the original desorger, how can I change the whole matrix in one time by rows not by columns. example.
9-8-7-6-5
6-5-3-2-1
98-87-54-21-32 etc.
thank you for any help.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:23:58 +0000

Okay here's what I need to do:
I have 5 lists each with somewhere between 10 to 30 text values associated with a title of that list. On another worksheet I have 2 dropdown lists with the 5 list names in each one. You may choose one of the names or two. I want another worksheet (based on those choices) to return all matching results and place them in a dropdown list, I need it to update if you change the choices at any time.

Does anyone know how to do this? I've been able to figure out alot of things but this one I can't clearly find out how to accomplish. I can and have used VBA on this sheet to accomplish other things but I'm not proficient in writing the code from scratch as I'm still learning it.