» Rearranging a String in Alphabetic Order
CATEGORY - Excel Text Formulas
VERSION - All Microsoft Excel Versions
Problem:The cells in column A contain 3-letter strings.
We want to rearrange each string so that its characters are sorted in alphabetic order.
Solution:
Use the CHAR, SMALL, CODE, and MID functions as shown in the following formula:
=CHAR(SMALL(CODE(MID(A2,{1,2,3},1)),1))&CHAR(SMALL(CODE(MID(A2,{1,2,3},2)),2))&CHAR(SMALL(CODE(MID(A2,{1,2,3},3)),3))
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