Sorting numbers before hyphen and within range

SuperJam

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Hi Folks,

Sorry if I sound silly. But, is there a way to sort by the last two digits before the hyphen, without removing the numbers after the hyphen? ie. 12306-97 , 123000-17, 154312-15, 965434-18, etc. I can do this slowly by combing through the spreadsheet but it is inefficient and I end up skipping a few on the first round of review.

With the huge spreadsheet that I get from work, the numbers after the hyphen are years. But, I only work on those which end in 00 to 12 before the hyphen. So, from the example above , I only need to pay attention to 12306-97, 123000-17, and 154312-15. I hope this sort of makes sense. Please help.
 

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Last used cell?
Press Ctrl+End to move to what Excel thinks is the last used cell.
You could add a column with this formula
=MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)-2,2)
which extracts the 2 numbers before the hyphen, then sort by that column. Change A1 to suit.
 
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