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mykaltx

I want to be able to sort a whole row of cells as one group. How do I do
that? Let me know if I need to explain myself better.
 
You would need to concatenate the cells into a help column like

=A3&B3&C3&D3&E3&F3&etc

then select the whole table including the help column and sort by the help
column


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

http://nwexcelsolutions.com
 
Peo suggested concatenating the cells with -

=A3&B3&C3&D3&E3&F3&etc

This wont work for cells containing numbers as these will be treated as a
string of numbers not a value. You would need to have something like

=A3&value(B3)&D3 where b3 contains a number

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions
 
Ok,
Say that I am using row 1 through Column E.
I am putting in steel information. Something like this. In steel L
stands for Angle. L 1/4 x 4 x 4. That will be the detail information.
That will fit into cell A1. Then the length will fit into Cell B1. All
other information will put into the remaining cells. I want those cells
to count as a block. The same thing will continue will row 2. This will
count as a block as well. So on and so on. Except say that, I enter
information into row 2 as a channel instead of an angle. That would be
C8 x 15. Well, I am not putting the information in any certain order as
I am doing data entry. When I am done with the data entry. I want to go
back and sort it so the angle and channel all end up together in there
own groups.
 
No difference, once you concatenate they will all be text regardless if you
treat one cell as a number
if all cells are numbers (most unlikely) one could use

=--(A3&B3&C3&D3&E3&F3)

however if there is a single text character in the above it will return a
value error so your formula won't do any difference at all


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

http://nwexcelsolutions.com
 

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