Changing Sorting Order

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Saighead

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Hi,

Is there a way to modify the way Excel sorts cells? This "A to Z" or "Z to A" algorithm is faulty as hell and apparently hasn't been updated since the dawn of time. It constantly sorts words in many languages in a horribly wrong order. Is it possible to create custom sorting routines?

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