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How to sort numbers with a space in the one cell
Hi - Have been searching online but can't find the correct formula. Is there a way to sort numbers in order i.e. lowest to highest within one excel cell as per below when there is a space between values? So in the cell below can you order the data as 1 4 6 24 35 45 52? Thanks for your help.
| 35 24 45 4 42 6 52 1 |
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- With permission from everyone, even if I still think that a file (without the syllable data) can present a clear picture for everyone, I now add a quick and easy solution.
Mark data (incl. Blank lines) - auto filter - do not show empty
then sort the same marking and then auto-filter off.
Without formula 🙂
Is just a thought, if it suits you I'll be happy. If it doesn't fit, just ignore it.
Nikolino With permission from everyone, here is some additional information about your project.
Thank you for your understanding and patience
Nikolino
There is nether range, nor table. Information is within one cell as text string.
- To err is human, probably correct text in the wrong post.
That's what happens when you want to multitask everything.
Thanks for the hint
Just to show how different a modern version of Excel can be, the following worksheet formula provides a very different solution strategy
It is a mix of insider beta functionality and a legacy XLM macro 4 function.
- Please elaborate your post & share that using which editor you have created this Macro supported by the new launch LAMBDA,, and the version which supports all these CELL.SORT ,, EVAL,,,, since this forum has users still working with older versions and not comfortable with VBA macros even!!
Since September 2018 there has been seismic changes in Excel. By 'seismic', I mean it is now possible to write Excel solutions that an average user might not even recognise as being Excel. In the post, have only used worksheet functions, there is no macro other than the old EVALUATE function that takes a text string and evaluates it as if it were a formula.
The Excel 365 changes (later in the year this should also be Office 2021) I refer to are to make array formulas the default without needing CSE. The there is the LET function that allows every alternate parameter to be a name created by the user, which refers to the formula in the following parameter. This helps make sense of deeply nested formulas and those that repeat the use of a calculation fragment.
The final change, that is currently only on release in the beta versions of Excel, is the LAMBDA function. It was this that allowed me to define the name
= CELL.SORT(seq)
which refers to the formula written over several lines (using Alt/Enter to generate a line feed). The LAMBDA function has the names to be used within the formula as its initial parameters and the function to evaluate as its final parameter. The thing that makes the function so revolutionary is that the LAMBDA is followed by the actual parameters to be used in the formula, held within parentheses. These are then substituted one for one in place of the dummy parameters which means that the same defined function can be used to refer to many different areas of the worksheet.
What makes the whole thing so startling to anyone schooled to accept traditional spreadsheet practice is that the resulting formulae read more like a snippet of code than a conventional formula.
You may try this, works with all version of Excel:
- An array (CSE) formula in cell C50:
{=IFERROR(SMALL(IF((COUNTIF($C$49:C49, $A$50:$A$61)=0)*ISNUMBER($A$50:$A$61), $A$50:$A$61, "A"), 1), INDEX($A$50:$A$61, MATCH(SMALL(IF(ISTEXT($A$50:$A$61)*(COUNTIF(C$49:$C49, $A$50:$A$61)=0), COUNTIF($A$50:$A$61, "<"&$A$50:$A$61), ""), 1), IF(ISTEXT($A$50:$A$61), COUNTIF($A$50:$A$61, "<"&$A$50:$A$61), ""), 0)))}- Finish formula with Ctrl+Shift+Enter , and fill down till needed.
If you are using higher version then yo may try this
=SORT(UNIQUE(FILTER(A50:A61,A50:A61<>"")))Another is:
- Apply Auto Filter to exclude blank cells, which actually does get rid of Null Strings. Then SORT the data.
- Adjust cell references in the formula as needed.
- If you have the textjoin, filterxml, and sort functions, then I believe this will work:
=TEXTJOIN(" ",TRUE,SORT(FILTERXML("<L><I>"&SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","</I><I>")&"</I></L>","//I")))
If you don't have sort, then I believe this will also work (may need to hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter after keying it into the formula bar if you don't have the latest excel version):
=TEXTJOIN(" ",TRUE,SMALL(FILTERXML("<L><I>"&SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","</I><I>")&"</I></L>","//I"),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))+1))))
