Using excel to group email subjects

[ahblur]

Hi,

I hope somebody can help me with the following as I am really lost when it comes to formulas.

I have a list of email subjects in an excel file and they are not in sequence and all over the place. I would like to sort the email subjects using excel. For example:

How are you
RE: How are you
FW: RE: How are you
RE: RE: RE: Bad Weather
FW: Bad Weather
RE: FW: RE: How are you
Bad Weather
RE: FW: RE: Bad Weather

If use the normal sort function, they will only be sorted alphabetically. How can I go about using formulas or delimiters to sort / group them correctly?
Thank you very much.

[ARGK]

Hi
One way you could do it is to make a copy of the subject column and in the copied column Search and Replace all the "RE: " and "FW: " entried with nothing and then use that column to sort you data.
Good luck.
Tony

[ahblur]

Thank you ARGK!

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