Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel Sorting

2022-08-04 Thread Jackie Keith
It thinks the number is text. Take a look at this: https://excel.tv/right-align-indent-numbers-in-excel-excel-tips/ > On Aug 4, 2022, at 2:26 PM, charles meyer wrote: > >  > Hi All, > > Thank you for sharing your thoughts, > > I have the name of s tpary namely 113 but it appears flush right

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel Sorting

2022-08-04 Thread charles meyer
Hi All, Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I have the name of s tpary namely 113 but it appears flush right in the cell instead of flsusd left. I need to get this sperachset out in the next couple of hours and this is holding it up. How do I make this flush left in the cell? I'm on Excel 36

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel sorting

2022-08-03 Thread Jackie Keith
It seems to be alphabetizing your header row of row 1. Try first freezing the top row. (*View *tab, click *Freeze Top Row*.) Then try the suggestion from Tim before: "Highlight the column you want to sort on. Excel will ask if you want to expand you selection. Select expand and sort. If you have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel sorting

2022-08-03 Thread charles meyer
Tim, Worked perfectly except that it then places the named column as an entry in the rows. Ex. 1st Column is Last Names 2nd Column is First Name 3rd Column is Story Name Third Column is email address 4th colum is phone # etc. What happens is it alphabetizes all the name and other columenbspoerfl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel sorting

2022-08-03 Thread Marijane White
Alternatively, use the Filter feature, it adds sorting controls to each column and maintains the integrity of the rows. On 8/2/22, 3:41 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Tim McMahon" wrote: Highlight the column you want to sort on. Excel will ask if you want to expand you select

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel sorting

2022-08-03 Thread M Belvadi
One more caveat - if your data one or more blank rows, that can prevent the entire sheet from being included in the sort. Watch for that. Melissa Belvadi mbelv...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 7:41 PM Tim McMahon wrote: > Highlight the column you want to sort on. Excel will ask if you want

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel sorting

2022-08-02 Thread Tim McMahon
Highlight the column you want to sort on.  Excel will ask if you want to expand you selection.  Select expand and sort.  If you have a header row that you don't want to include in the sort, use the custom sort and check 'My data has headers'. On 8/2/22 4:58 PM, charles meyer wrote: My esteem