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Formula Help for Sorting
You are looking for a single formula that will do all that--both sort and then assign?
You don't really give enough info for a full understanding here, with just three examples. Are you creating (not just assigning) those departments, such that what you're ending up with is a 1:1 ratio between sorted cells and departments? That would simply be a sort.
Anyway, my own approach would be to create "a helper column" which would extract the value of those last two digits from the texts ("00-14" is in fact a text value), doing so with this formula: =VALUE(RIGHT(A4,2)), and then sort on the basis of those extracted values. See the attached.
I chose to sort in descending order just to demonstrate that it changed it.
If you have something more extensive--e.g., multiple and random lines assigned to individual apartments--then come back with a more complete description.
I can give an example. Such as like file numbers that could potentially end in 00-99 but sorted as groups 00-14,15-29,30-42 and so forth. After those are sifted through, I'd like to then assign them a department where they would be assigned, Dept 1, Dept 2 etc based on what group they were sorted by.
IE: 00-14 = assigned to Dept 1. So my end result would be the assigned department
Does that make any sense at all? 😀 I'm a little terrible at trying to describe what's in my brain LOL
