Excel sort application should work with Project WBS

[Guest]

I saved a MS Project as a MS Excel file. One of the fields that where in the
file was the WBS (1.1, 1.1.2, .1.4.5). When in the excel sheet I try to sort
by this column, it separates not just each number between the dots, but each
digit. Example:
the number 1.1.14 comes before 1.1.9, and that should not happen.
Hope Ill get an answer.

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[Jim Cone]

That is the way Excel sorts...character by character ( 1 comes before 9).
or maybe...
http://www.officeletter.com/blink/specialsort.html
review of a commercial program

Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA


I saved a MS Project as a MS Excel file. One of the fields that where in the
file was the WBS (1.1, 1.1.2, .1.4.5). When in the excel sheet I try to sort
by this column, it separates not just each number between the dots, but each
digit. Example:
the number 1.1.14 comes before 1.1.9, and that should not happen.
Hope Ill get an answer.