Sorting Numbers

T

Texas Nuckols

I need this list of numbers to sort numerically
1
1001
1015
102
1045
105
1053
Why is it sorting like this?
 
D

Dennis

The cells are formatted as text or the data has an apostrophe before it to
signify text. Either remove the apostrophies or format the cells as numbers
 
R

Roger Govier

Hi

The numbers must have been entered (or copied) as text values, not numbers.
place a number 1 in a blank cell somewhere on your sheet.
Copy that cell>Mark your block of "numbers">Paste Special>Multiply

That should convert them to true numeric's and the sort will work as you
expect in increasing numerical value.
 

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