alphanumeric sort

[Guest]

I would like to sort values for numbered connectors such as C1, C2, C3,
....... C200. However, excel is sorting it as C1, C100, C11, C123, etc. How
do I change this???

 

[Daniel CHEN]

I do not think there is any direct way to do it.
You can use code to separate the text part and numerical part and then sort
them.

Something like this:
Suppose all your values in Column A, then
in Column B - extract the text part, "C"
in Column C - extract the numerical part, "2", "22", etc.
Sort by Column B first then Column C.

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[Hans Knudsen]

If you always have only one "C" at the left you might want to try this array formula:
(assume your data is in A1:A6)
="C"&SMALL((RIGHT($A$1:$A$6,LEN($A$1:$A$6)-1))*1,ROW(A1))
(hold down Ctrl and Shift while pressing Enter)

Regards
Hans