sorting error message

AllenL

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Question: I am trying to sort a worksheet. However, I got an error message"This operation requries the merged cells to be identially sized" when I click the sort button
I have some merged cells but how could I make them identically sized???
Thanks in advance
 

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Basically it is saying you cannot sort merged and unmerged cells. I do not know of a way around this.
 
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Hi Allen,

The only workaround I can think of is to copy your data to another (hidden?) column and sort on that one. Other than that, you will have to unmerge the cells.

Bye,
Jay
 
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Hello Jay
Could you explain your answer a little bit more.
Do you mean copy my entire data to another hidden column or just the data that have merged cells?
Also what is hidden column?
Thanks in advance
 
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Hi Allen,

My thoughts were that you would be able to copy the values to a new column and then sort that. You could then hide the extra column so you wouldn't have to show the duplicate data. That doesn't work, though. Big OOPS! on my part.

You can still do this with the new data if you only wish to sort that particular new column (the selection is *not* expanded). However, if you wish to sort the entire data range, including the merged columns, it fails.

You will have to unmerge the cells to sort the entire data set.

Regards,
Jay
 
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