Excel sorting numbers

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I have a lot of documents where I have to sort numbers.  I've had no problems with my sort until I updated my office program 3 weeks ago.  Now with every number grouping I sort it gives me an inaccurate sort.  Is this something that I can change?

 

This is what it should be:

what I how it
want sorts
1 1
2 10
3 11
4 12
5 13
6 14
7 2
8 3
9 4
10 5
11 6
12 7
13 8
14 9
3 Replies
Please upload/share the Workbook to examine the data, otherwise difficult to say the reason!!

@romantzlady Can't explain why this started after an update, but your "numbers" are in fact texts and sorted accordingly. Use the VALUE function to convert them to numbers.

 

 

 

 

 

@romantzlady 

Most probably you have texts, not numbers. With that to sort click on

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Here is like

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and next it asks you

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Select Sort as numbers.