sorting whole numbers

[wstruse]

Could someone tell me how to sort out the whole numbers in a column of
mixed numbers? (decimals and whole numbers )

Thank you in advance,

wstruse

 

[JE McGimpsey]

One way:

Assuming your numbers are in column A, in a free column, enter

=ABS((A1-ROUND(A1,0))) < 1E-10

and copy down. Sort on this column. The TRUE values are whole numbers.

Adjust 1E-10 to be smaller than the precision of your values (e.g., if
your values have a maximum of 2 places after the decimal point, you
could, if you wanted to, use 1E-04 instead.

 

[wstruse]

JE McGimpsey,

That worked great. I have over 800,000 cells to look through and you
just saved me many hours of time.

Thank you,

William Struse

 

[Bob Phillips]

You could also use

=INT(A1)+A1

or

=MOD(A1,1)=0

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HTH

RP
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[JE McGimpsey]

Don't see how

=INT(A1)+A1

would work.

The only problem with MOD(A1,1)=0 is that, for calculated values, a
small rounding error gives a false negative.