I have several columns in Excel that looks like this:
Notice the column headers in the first row, 56g_flux_data39(1)1992, 56g_flux_data39(10)1992, 56g_flux_data39(11)1992, etc.
I want to sort them in numerical order, so 56g_flux_data39(1)1992, 56g_flux_data39(2)1992, 56g_flux_data39(3)1992, all the way to 56g_flux_data39(11)1992; but Excel's sorting function doesn't seem to recognize the numbers between the brackets (1). It wants to group the numbers beginning with 1 together, for example (1), (10), (11).
How do I get Excel to see the (10) and (11) as a ten and eleven and sort them in proper numerical order?
Thanks.
Create another row above your column title with the following formula. This will isolate the number, which can then be sorted according to its numerical value (tested, see screenshot below):
=LEFT(RIGHT(A3;LEN(A3)-16);LEN(A3)-21)