Hm I doesn't think so. I have multiple words separeted by point (up to 21) and the alpha part is valid for sorting too.

Agnes
>Then you can't have done as I explained? You do all this in ONE operation, either with inline functions or with separate functions. By the way, I got another solution. You separate the numeric part, by using chrtran(), and convert it into a numeric value. Then you use int() on this value to separate the first part. The remainder is the second value to sort on.
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>I don't have the time to help you more right now, but if you could send me a private email with some test data, I can make a solution for you later today.