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MS Office Forum / Excel / Programming / October 2008How do I set auto-sort for a column in a worksheet?
Hi; I need to create a worksheet to keep record of customers. I have the following example: NAME PHONE ADDRESS CONTRACT WK1 WK2 Phil 123-456 Angel 321-654 John 987-630 I need to keep the first row as the titles row, and need the worksheet to automatically sort in alphabetical order based on the name, and to do it everytime a new customer is added to the list. HOW CAN I DO THAT? Regards, FVO What you are asking for can be done but I would make it more semi automatic than automatic. Your end users are going to find it very disconcerting to add a customer and have the sheet automatically resort. They enter the customer name and the sheet resorts. Now the customer they were working on is somewhere in the list and they need to go find it to enter the rest of the customer data... I would just add a button and attach a sort macro to it. You can also have the sheet resort when the user leaves the sheet. I have had a lot more luck with that... The button is very straight forward to do. If you want help with the resort on leaving the sheet just reply...  SignatureHTH... Jim Thomlinson > Hi; > I need to create a worksheet to keep record of customers. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Regards, > FVO Jim; What you are saying about a command bottom seems to be the best option. Could you help me with it? Thanks in advance! > What you are asking for can be done but I would make it more semi automatic > than automatic. Your end users are going to find it very disconcerting to add [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Regards, > > FVO Record a macro whereby you sort the range in question. Name it "SortStuff" or something similar. On the forms toolbar there is acommand button object. Click it and draw a button on your sheet. When you finish drawing it a dialog will come up asking you to assing a macro. Assign your macro and you are good to go... SignatureHTH... Jim Thomlinson > Jim; > What you are saying about a command bottom seems to be the best option. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > > Regards, > > > FVO Why not add a command button to the sheet, so you can sort on demand? Then just record a macro of yourself sorting on whatever field you want, and attach the code to the button. It will re-sort every time you click. HTH --JP > Hi; > I need to create a worksheet to keep record of customers. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Regards, > FVO JP; You and Jim have the same opinion and it seems to be the best. I'm very novice with excell. Could you (or Jim) help on that Command Buttom and adding the MACRO to it? THANKS!! FVO > Why not add a command button to the sheet, so you can sort on demand? > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Regards, > > FVO Follow Jim's advice in his last post :) If you need to locate the Forms toolbar, just go to View Menu, Toolbars, Forms. --JP > JP; > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > HTH > > --JP |
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