Numbers behave like text in pivot table

yabi100

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Office Version
  1. 2016
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  1. Windows
I formatted row labels (see image below) as number in original table and checked with isnumber. However here in pivot table they behave like text. I want to sort them descending.

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Looking at that you must have a mix of numbers and text in your source data, since that is clearly numbers sorting first then text (you can tell because you have numbers repeating).
 
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Thanks for your reply. I check whole column with isnumber command and result for all cells is: true. But when I sort that column in pivot table, it appears like that.
 
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I'd have to see the workbook then, because the sorting and grouping you have there only makes sense for a mixture of text and numbers. Can you put the workbook on a sharing site like OneDrive or Dropbox?
 
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