In Column C, I would like to have every 7th (seventh) cell hold the date range for the previous 7 cells in Column B: Does this make sense? (I've written & rewritten & rewritten AGAIN this question, and it still seems confusing.Ĭolumn A has descending days of the week listed:Ĭolumn B has descending dates for the whole year: I have a column containing sequential dates through the year, and in the next column, in every seven cells, I would like to have a date range of the previous week listed.

I know this has nothing to do with your post, but I am at a loss as to how to perform a (seemingly) simple function in OpenOffice Calc. If you want to go a little farther and sort by something else, like days of the week in the order they come, not alphabetical order, tune in for the next sorting blog. This window that I've covered in this blog entry is pretty much what you need. Here's a closeup of one section, followed by the complete data. In the Sort Criteria tab, select first State, then City, then Last Name. In the Options tab, be sure to select the Range Contains Column Labels option if you selected headings. Select the data, with or without headings, and choose Data > Sort. So you'd sort by state (the broadest category), then city, then alphabetically by last name. In this case you might want to just sort by last name, but you could also group by location. You have a lot of people from the same state, and several cities per state.

Now, let's look at a different set of data. Here, the amounts under the column for the year 2000 are sorted in ascending order. Select the column to sort by, and Ascending or Descending. If you selected headings you'll see the headings themselves if you didn't then you'll just see Column A, etc. If you've got headings selected, you want the option shown, 'Range Contains Column Labels,' to be selected. You need to tell Calc whether you've got headings selected or not. You're good either way.Ĭlick the Options tab. Select all the data to sort, and either select the headings or not. For that, you need the Sort window under Data > Sort. Maybe you want to sort first by state, then by city, then by last name.

Not just sorting by the first column, but by perhaps the third column.

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