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Can you give a few examples here?
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Your best bet is to split the data into columns, then you'll have much more control for sorting. You can do so by clicking data, text to columns.
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Your best bet is to split the data into columns, then you'll have much more control for sorting. You can do so by clicking data, text to columns.

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I have a column that contains data in the format:<br />
Alpha:Numeric.Surname,Firs<wbr />tname<br />
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I want to sort on the Surname, Firstname. I don't care if the Alpha:Numeric. is deleted.
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I have a column that contains data in the format:
Alpha:Numeric.Surname,Firstname

I want to sort on the Surname, Firstname. I don't care if the Alpha:Numeric. is deleted.

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