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You're going to struggle to do this, because the values in the Item column are treated as text. So the sorting looks at characters one at a time from the left until they're different, so 1 comes before 6 even if there are zeroes after the 1.
You could try to extract the numerical value into a different column but it won't be easy. You could also try to edit the values so that there are leading zeroes, so instead of: RING BINDER, plastic, 6mm x 1.2m you have RING BINDER, plastic, 06mm x 1.2m and instead of: STAPLE WIRE, heavy duty, binder type, 23/6 you edit it to: STAPLE WIRE, heavy duty, binder type, 23/06 It'll get difficult when you have the likes of: 1 1/2" and 1 3/8" because the 3/8ths is smaller than the 1/2 numerically, but not alphabetically. |
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