Comments on: Sort On More Than 3 Columns

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:57:00 +0000

The REAL TIP is Kuba’s 2nd tip on concatenating columns! Thanks, saved me a lot of work!

By: Kuba

Kuba — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:14:00 +0000

When sorting large number of columns I suggest concatenating them.
For example, you have 10 columns to sort one by another. IN the 11th column deploy the concatenate(col1, col2, ...) function and then sort by this column only.

By: Kuba

Kuba — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:11:00 +0000

The example is correct. The author says at the beginning that the table is to be sorted by “…Country, Region, City”. This and the screens are consistent with Bill’s conclusion on CDE&AB.

By: Bill Doherty

Bill Doherty — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:54:00 +0000

If I understand your example correctly, when sorting columns A.B.C.D.E, (E being the least important). I sort in this order E.D.C and then A.B.

This did not work for my completely numeric Leader Board. Columns C and D were wrong

Sorting C.D.E and then A.B. did

By: Debbie Ruzich

Debbie Ruzich — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:38:00 +0000

Can you have more than two consecutive sorts? When I try to sort a third time, the first two sorts are overwritten. I seems to only work for the first two Data Sort boxes.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:41:00 +0000

David Gainer has reported that Excel 12 will sort on up to 64 criteria:

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2005/09/26/474258.aspx

By: Gary Hunt

Gary Hunt — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:48:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip, however I would of thought that excel would allow you sort sort by more than 3 columns, my old Amiga could do as many as you wanted and/or up to your memory limit. This is a seroius limit to large spreadsheets. I hope they sort it out in the next update.