Sorting Alpha-Numeric Data

Smokeyham

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
Seems this should be fairly simple, but various things I have tried after Google searches have not worked. I would like to sort the following in Alpha-numeric order, but can't get the number sorting correct.

P101
P102
P103
P104
P105
P106
P107
P108
P109
P110
P111
P43
P50
P78
P79
 

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You'll need to involve a second column to achieve the results you're looking for. If the first character will always be a letter, you can use the MID formula (=MID(A2,2,10)) to extract numbers only in the new column. Then, sort on the new column.
 
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