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From: KTK-VK@finou.oulu.fi (Vesa Komulainen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: MS-Excel sorting problem
Message-ID: <90237.130432KTK-VK@finou.oulu.fi>
Date: 25 Aug 90 10:09:14 GMT
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Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
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I wish to know if MS-Excel 2.1 has a sorting bug or what. I had a worksheet
with some 250 rows and close to 20 columns which I had to sort using five
keys. So I started with the two least important keys which apparently were
sorted correctly. Next, I sorted using the three most important keys but I
it was obvious that Excel had sorted wrong several instances at the third
key. Has anyone ever experienced similar sorting problems in Excel? I
renewed the sorting procedure several times but the final result was always
wrong at the third key.

The machine I was using was an AT with 640KB and 1MB of EMS. The Windows
version was 2.03.