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[Father John]

Hi

I have a spreadsheet with numerous addresses in col. A 1-999

15 Smith Street Jonestown
21 George Street Blacktown etc.

In col B. 1-166 I have the name of all the suburbs in our region

How can is sort col. A by suburb using the name of the suburbs in Col.B. ?

Any help much appreciated

Regards
Stephen

 

[ozgrid.com]

I'm assuming you have blanks in Column "B" representing repeated Suburbs.
http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/excel-fill-blank-cells.htm

 

[JLatham]

From my reply in the duplicate post in Worksheet Functions:

select all of the cells involved in both columns (and any more with related
data), then use Data Sort and sort on Column B. To put the street addresses
in some kind of order within the suburb, choose Column A as the second sort
parameter.

 

[Father John]

Hi there
I don't think this will work as it will sort the total suburbs in B and the
addresses by street number in A
The data in B does not align with col. A as B only contains the name of the
suburbs in the region
Thanks
Stephen

 

[Father John]

No the problem is the data I want to sort the column by is contained within
the address - it is not the lead part of the data
Col B has the full list of the suburbs that I am trying to d the sort with
The data in col. B does not form a part of the record for each line
Thanks
Stephen

 

[NewToExcel]

You might try using substring to isolate the last work in column A into a new
column. Then you can sort on the new column.