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SORTBY newb... Other solutions don't appear to apply??
Thanks for your reply, m_tarler!
I did use conditional formatting for the color change and that worked great!
I am exploring the quick filter option; that might be the option I have to use, but I really wanted to have it be dynamic, rather than manual.
so if the issue is that the regular sort and quick sort options are only alphanumeric based options (i.e. urgent, high, medium would be sorted either high, med, urgent or urgent, med, high based on alphabetical) then a simple option is to add another column and substitute numbers for the critical levels using XMATCH:
=XMATCH([critical level], {"Urgent","High","Medium","Low"})
I would make that critical level a list on a sheet and/or a Name so then you can make sure the same list is used for the drop down and the XMATCH
=XMATCH( [critical level], Critical_List )
then you can easily sort by that value column
Since cells colors are pre-defined, we may sort by them as well. To setup color sorting order is a challenge, on the other hand that's one time job.
