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How to sort list-style numbers in Excel?

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Mar 15, 202610932 views
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I have a column of "numbers" in Excel that I would like to sort as follows: However, regardless if the cell's type is number or text, Excel sorts them as follows: This could also be called "Natural sorting" -- in a programming language like PHP this would be accomplished by the function. But I cann…

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You can make a table to split the values: For each column, use the headings (row 1) and formulas (row 2+): This appears as: Then you can do a custom sort by columns num1, num2 and num3.

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