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silambarasang
Copper Contributor
Aug 16, 2024

Office 365 excel pivot sorting bug

Hi 

I'm using Excel office 365. Seems sorting Error in pivot table, for alphabet (a,b,c,d,e,f) sorting showing as (a,d,b,c,e,f)

 

Row Labels
A
D
B
C
E
F
G
H
Grand Total
  • silambarasang 

    In general PivotTable sorts in alphabetical order

    If to add some non-printable character (usually happens if data copy/pasted from web) when we may reproduce your case

    That could be custom sorting list in settings.

    If you have not "A" and "D" but texts with special characters sorting order also could be not necessary alphabetical.

    Whatever...

    It's better to check sample file if possible.

  • mathetes's avatar
    mathetes
    Silver Contributor

    silambarasang 

     

    What you're showing us definitely is an anomaly. But you're also not showing the whole picture. Without that, nobody can offer any explanation that's any more than sheer speculation. That's probably why you've received no replies despite all the views.

     

    Could I suggest you share a bit more of the pivot table in question. Ideally, unless it has a lot of confidential information, if you could post the actual workbook on OneDrive or one of the other cloud services, and then paste a link here that grants access....this would enable us to do more than idle speculation.

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