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How to sort cells by last character or number in Excel?

It is easy to sort cells by the first character in Excel. But when you need to sort cells by the last character or number in Excel, how could you do it? This article is going to show you some easy ways to sort cells by last character or number in Excel quickly.

Sort by last character or number with Right Function

An example may be easy to understand. The following ways will show you how to sort the cells in the Column A by their last characters.

If we can extract the last characters from each cell, it will be easy to sort the cells by their last characters. Luckily, Microsoft Excel's Right function supports extracting the last letter or number form cells.

1.  Select a blank cell besides the column, says Cell B2, enter the formula of =RIGHT(A2,1), and then drag the cells's Fill Handle down to the cells as you need.

2. Keep selecting these formula cells, and click Data > Sort A to Z or Sort Z to A. In the opening Sort warning dialog box, check Expand the selection option and click Sort button. See screenshot:

3. Now data has been sorted. Please delete the formula cells as you need

Then you will see the cells in original Column A are sorted by their last characters.

Easily sort by last name/word in cells in Excel

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Sort by last character or number with VBA

You may also think of reverse the cell contents before sorting them by their last characters. Actually here is a VBA macro can help you.

1.  Hold down the Ctrl + F11 key to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window.

2.  Click the Insert >> Module, and paste the following VBA code on the new Module window:

VBA: Extract the last character form a cell

Public Function RevStr(Rng As Range)
RevStr = StrReverse(Rng.text)
End Function

3.  Go back to the Microsoft Excel window, enter the formula of =RevStr(A1), and drag the cell's Fill Handle to the cells as you need.

4.  Click one of three Sort buttons under the Data button, and in the opening dialog box check the Expand the selection option and click the Sort button.

5. Delete the Column B.

Now it sort all cells in the column a by their last characters.


Sort cells by last characters or numbers with Kutools for Excel

If we can reverse all characters’ order in cells, then we can sort these cells by the last character easily. Kutools for Excel’s Reverse Text Order utility can help you solve it easily as below screenshot shown:

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1. Select the cells that you will sort by last character, and click Kutools > Text > Reverse Text Order.

2. In the opening Reverse Text dialog box, check Noting option and click OK button.

3. Now all characters are reversed in selected cells. Keep selecting these cells, and click Data > Sort A to Z or Sort Z to A. In the opening Sort warning dialog box, check Expand the selection option and click Sort button. See screenshot:

4. Now cells have been sorted by last character, and we need to restore characters’ order in these cells by repeating step 1-2.

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This is handy for when you have a long list of emails, and need to sort them into groups by organisation.I used VBA formula to reverse the email addresses in a new adjacent column, then sorted the new column alphabetically. This helped group all the email addresses into organisation groups. (Specifically, I'm using it to export the corporate and sub accounts from a MemberPress site).Thanks a lot!
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Thanks! This was very helpful!
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Thanks! Great article
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Great tutorial, very helpful for my project. Thank You
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hii can u help how to aarange the the project codes in specifed order according to there last 3 digt code all 026 should colum by col examp '000’, 'D-02-817816-026', 'C-02-816770-026', 'D-02-819610-088', 'C-02-816770-026' 'C-02-819386-088', 'D-02-821120-027'
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My easy suggestion Suppose the column that you want to sort is titled PRODUCT_CODE Highlight the required cells (PRODUCT_CODE) In DATA option, click on FILTER. Beside the top cell on PRODUCT_CODE, you will see the filter option, when you click on it, the drop down pane will have the option of TEXT FILTERS. In TEXT FILTERS you will get the ENDS WITH option , or you can use the CONTAINS option. This will sort with exactly what criteria you require. eg: PRODUCT_CODE List contains NC007196 O NC007516 C NC007782 K NC007797 O NC007809 O NC007916 K NC007919 K NC007930 O NC007964 C NC008095 K NC008098 K NC008226 K NC008538 K NC008653 O NC008741 O NC008762 O NC008779 O NC008857 K NC008924 K NC008990 K NC009412 O NC009548 C NC009696 O NC009741 O NC009885 C NC009913 C NC009915 K if you use the highlight the column and FILTER it by ends with K, the result will give NC007782 K NC007916 K NC007919 K NC008095 K NC008098 K NC008226 K NC008538 K NC008857 K NC008924 K NC008990 K NC009915 K Hope this helps you out guys!
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Thank you for this great suggestion!
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good job my freind thank you..
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