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Problem with an ascending order sort in Excel

Asked by ph111lll in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software, Miscellaneous Software, Spreadsheet Software

Tags: Microsoft, Excel, 2003, Professional edition

Hi,

There may well be an easy, obvious answer to this, but I cannot see it.

I have a list of numbers followed by a letter and would like them to be displayed in ascending order in a column.  The full range - and the order I would like them to appear - is: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B, 7A, 7B, 8A, 8B, 9A, 9B, 10A, 10B, 11A, 11B, 12A, 12B.  What I am finding is that 10A/B, 11A/B and 12A/B are being placed above 1A/B in the list.

For a bit of background, for DJing purposes I am trying to produce a spreadsheet of all my music tracks, sorted by increasing tempo, then by increasing musical key (see http://www.harmonic-mixing.com/overview/easymix.mv for the origin of these keycodes and the reason why I require the keys displayed in strict ascending numerical order).  Occasionally, this key column may contain two compatible keys, so the cell may look like 10A/11A, or 7A/6A (I add this in case it may affect any code that you give me).

I'd be grateful for any ideas.

Thanks in advance.

Phil
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