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Why some cells can not be sorted in Excel

I am met with very strange things with spreadsheets in Excel now. Some cells with a date like 2023-10-22 can not be sorted with other cells in the same format in a column. I changed the format of the ...
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Excel Sort Command not working AT ALL as expected

I have a table in excel (formatted as a Table), that does allow me to sort, but its results are incorrect in at least two ways: the numeric value column I am sorting on A-Z or Highest-to-lowest comes ...
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How to group multiple date|data columns to one single date column on the left?

I've got a large set of data that looks like: and I've been trying to format it so that instead of having a column of dates for each item, there's only one column of dates on the left. The problem is ...
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Sorting rows: 6 transactions with date and action information grouped together

I need to organize transaction information in a spreadsheet by ascending date order. Each row represents a single person and the last 6 transactions in their history. The problem is that while the ...
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Sorting one column of data into multiple columns

If I have a list of data in a spreadsheet like this: John 123-456-7890 [email protected] Sally 987-654-3210 [email protected] . . . What would be the quickest and cleanest way to sort the data into rows ...
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Spreadsheet: create column based on one column sorted by values of another

I want to create a new column of data from one column sorted by another column. It's easiest to explain with an example. This is not actually what I'm doing, but I think it explains it well. Let's ...
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How to Sort unique Contacts?

I have a list of 35k contacts, I need to sort unique after unique I demonstrated in this example how I want to sort contacts: I tried by removing duplicates then to copy unique and to go back to ...
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Excel sorted heading won't sort data in whole spreadsheet

So I would like to be able sort all my data using the little drop down arrow created by the filter function, all the way from F to JE. At the moment it will only sort from F to AK. Any idea how I ...
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How to sort columns in Excel so that only one value appears in each row?

Say I have a a spreadsheet with the following data: A B C D --------------------- 2 1 0 2 3 2 1 4 5 3 3 6 7 5 6 8 11 8 10 10 ...
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How to sort an Excel spreadsheet columns by row contents?

How do I sort the columns of an Excel spreadsheet? The Sort command from the Data menu only allows me to sort rows by the value of a column. I want to sort the columns alphabetically by the contents ...
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Two Spreadsheets, Merge Data?

I was wondering what is the best way to merge two spreadsheets which have the name id's e.g: One sheet has: apple 5 dog 3 cat 2 Second sheet: dog 4 apple 7 cat 3 I would like ...
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Autosort microsoft excel worksheet

Can I configure (possibly with scripts) Excel to automatically resort a table every time an entry is updated?
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