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From: jds217 <jds217.1y3yty_1131336001.6...@excelforum-nospam.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:57:40 -0600
Local: Mon, Nov 7 2005 2:57 pm
Subject: Sort and exclude certain words
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Hi ...

I work in a public library and frequently export lists of books from
our online catalog to Excel, so that I can manipulate the data in
various ways.

My problem in sorting in Excel is this:  Our library catalog excludes
words like "The" "A" or "An" at the beginning of a title when sorting.
Excel, however, does not.

Is there any way I can sort on a field in Excel and have it ignore
certain words at the beginning of a string?

Thanks!

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