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word data won't sort numbers
peter pikul 11/10/2008 9:56:11 PM
I have entered numbers into a data file I created and when I try to get them
to sort
they are gruped by the first number I.E. all ones are together but not in
larged to small ammount.

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Re: word data won't sort numbers
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 11/10/2008 10:20:45 PM
What is the data source?

I assume that by the ones being together you mean somthing like

1
11
13
2
21

etc. which indicates that they are being treated as text.

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[Quoted Text]
>I have entered numbers into a data file I created and when I try to get
>them
> to sort
> they are gruped by the first number I.E. all ones are together but not in
> larged to small ammount.
>
> Help


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