How do you alphabetize street addresses within a column?

[Rosemarie]

How do you alphabetize street addresses within a column? When I sort
according to address, it sorts according to the number (not the street name).
It is more important to group the street names than the street numbers.
HELP!

 

[Mike H]

Rosemary,

Can we see an example of the data layout.

Mike

 

[Dave Curtis]

Hi,

An easy way is to create two new helper columns, one containing the number,
the other containing the street name.
Assuming the numbers and names are in column A,then put

=--LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)) in B1 and drag down.

Put

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(" ",A1,1)) in C1 and drag down

Then sort on column C, making sure you expand the range to include column A
and B in the range.

Dave

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[DAP]

I have the same issue, except the addresses and the street names are
referenced from another sheet using the offset command. How do I separate the
numbers from the street names?

 

[David Biddulph]

In the formulae below, replace A1 by your existing OFFSET formula.