The following images shows the date sorting has been executed correctly. Read More: [Fixed!] Sort and Filter Not Working in Excel Things to Remember Always follow your chosen date formatting when inputting a date. Do not mix up time with dates. Carefully check if there is an error in the...
I have what I hope is a simple problem - all that I need is for excel to sort numbers numerically. Instead, it is sorting them 1, 10, 11 ... 19, 2, 20, etc. I've tried pasting my raw data as values, I've tried converting to number, I've tried =CLEAN, =TRIM, =SUBSTITUTE...
I don,t understand why I have to make it more complicated and look up the =clean function for a list of 80 names and numbers to be sorted correctly. William_Bila What is the point of having excel if it can't do basic math? Excel can and does do basic math...
For chronological sorting, select Oldest to Newest. Press the OK button. Result Your data will now be sorted by year. Notes: Sort by Date Not Working in Excel If your dates are inserted in Text format in Excel, the Sort by Dates feature will not work as expected. Read More: How to...
1.Why is Excel sort by date not working? Trouble sorting by date in Excel may arise due to dates needing to be recognised or formatted as text. To resolve this, you can convert dates to the correct format using "Format Cells." If using the English UK date style, custom formats may be...
Rows that are hidden by the filter will remain hidden, but the filter itself will not display correctly in earlier versions of Excel. What it means Beginning with Excel 2007, you can filter dates by a grouped hierarchy. Because this is not supported in Excel 97-2003, you may ...
Numeric Values Formatted as Text:If numbers are formatted as text, they won't sort correctly. Excel treats them as words, not numerical values, causing sorting confusion. Numbers from Excel RAND or RANDBETWEEN Functions:Numbers generated through these functions change each time you recalculate the ...
Now try sorting your data again using theSortbutton (under the Data tab). If you still don’t find your data getting sorted correctly, it probably means that Excel is still not recognizing your date cells asdates. To check if that’s the case, do the following: ...
If the columns that you want to sort contain both numbers that are stored as numbers and numbers that are stored as text, the numbers will not sort correctly. Numbers that are stored as text are displayed aligned left instead of right. To format selected numbers consist...
Not quite sure what happened, but my first copy/paste just didn't come through correctly at all! Sorry for the multiple messages! =IFERROR( INDEX('Pre-Separation Sign-Up'!$A$25:$BT$225&"", SMALL( IF( FREQUENCY( IF(('Pre-Separation Sign-Up'!$A$25:$BT$225"")*(COUNTBLANK('Pre...