I am trying to sort an alpha numeric strin consecutively, but can't seem to figure it out?
HEre is a bit of what I ahve going on...
R-1
R-10
R-100
R-101
R-102
R-103
R-104
R-105
R-106
R-107
R-108
R-109
R-11
R-110
R-111
R-112
R-113
R-114
R-115
R-116
R-117
R-118
R-119
R-12
R-120
I can't get it to sort P1, P2, P3, but it seems to want to put the P2 value after the P-19 value and the P-3 value after the P-29 value??
Thanks for any help here.
Your human eye gives a different context to these text strings than Excel does. They're text, so they sort in ascending order based on text ascendancy.
The only way to get Excel to sort them as numbers is to add another column, pull in the numeric values only, then sort by the resulting new column.
If those values are are A1 down, then in B1:
=MID(A1, FIND("-", A1)+1, LEN(A1))+0
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