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Sort Letters

Category: Text Processing Updated at: 2024-02-12

The Sort Letters function is a feature that allows you to alphabetically sort the characters within a cell:

See it in Action

Requirements

Data

  • Target Data

    • Data Range: Identify the cells range where you want to apply the function.

    • Columns Included: Check this option if your selected range includes the first row as column headers. This ensures that the first row is recognized as column names and excluded from the processing.

  • Sort Order

    • Ascending: Choose this option to sort the characters within each selected cell from A to Z, or numerically from lowest to highest.

    • Descending: Select this to sort the characters from Z to A, or numerically from highest to lowest.

Fill empty cells with

  • Keep Empty: Leave cells that are empty as is, without adding any text.

  • Forward Fill: Copy the value from the nearest non-empty cell above into empty cells before adding the specified letters or text.

  • Backward Fill: Copy the value from the nearest non-empty cell below into empty cells before adding the specified letters or text.

  • -: Fill empty cells with a letter "-".

  • 0: Fill empty cells with a letter "0".

  • Custom: Allows for a custom value or text to be inserted into empty cells prior to adding the specified letters.

Result Destination

Specify the starting cell where the results will be placed.

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