Sorting a column from the last letter or 2 letters of a part numbe

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Brian Denny

Anyone have any ideas on how to sort a column from the last letter or two
letters of a part number rather than the first. Sounds crazy, but it would
save me hours of work monthly if I could figure this one out.

Thank you.
 
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Jon Peltier

Use a helper column that uses a formula like =RIGHT(B2,2) to contain the
last two characters, and sort on this column.

- Jon
 
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daddylonglegs

Try extracting the last letter or letters to another column, e.g. if your
data is in column A then use this formula in B1 to extract last two letters
and copy down

=RIGHT(A1,2)

then sort both columns based on column B
 
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Brian Denny

Thanks Jon, I'll do that!

Brian Denny

Jon Peltier said:
Use a helper column that uses a formula like =RIGHT(B2,2) to contain the
last two characters, and sort on this column.

- Jon
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