Numbers Not Sorting

Greetings,
My wife created a table in Numbers '09 and is now unable to resort the table. The options to sort are grayed out. I've looked through the forums and I see that the major reason for this is merged or split cells, but I don't seem to see any in the table. I have saved just the table in a separate file and posted it to my dropbox. Can I trouble someone to take a look and see if anyone can find the problem? You can download the file at:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/894146/Breeding%20Records.numbers
Thanks for your help.

Hi Barry
Not my eyes but Numbers itself.
I planned to sort the table.
To be able to recover the original state easily, I added a column
inserted 1 in it's first cell,
2 in the 2nd one
and tried to apply fill down with the circula handle.
All was OK until I reached row 40.
Impossible n'est pas Français but Numbers was unable to fill cell 41.
So, I moved to the left of the table just for se and bingo, I saw two header cells in front of a single cell.
Eureka !.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 3 mai 2010 21:03:33

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Interesting spelling of your username. I'd always associated this type with dogs, not with hearts.
I think you may have discovered a bug (or perhaps more accurately generously, an artifact—an overlooked effect of automation).
On copying your (sorted) list, pasting it in (column B), randomizing it, then resorting in ascending order, I got the same results you did.
When I typed a copy of the list into column A and sorted it, I got the same results again.
Column C is a list of random numbers, generated by formula, and offering a column on wdich to randomize the sort of the table.
Columns D and E contain the formulas below, which pick off the first and last characters of the pair in column B, then rejoin them, in one case placing a period/full stop/decimal point between them, in the other, simply concatenating them into a two character text string.
Sorting on either of columns D and E produced the expected sort:
A light was beginning to glow. Entered directly, or by copy/paste, into an unformatted column, the items sorted 'incorrectly'. Reformed into text strings, with or without a constant intervening character, they sorted as expected.
One further test: Column F was added, preformatted as Text, and the values entered into it. The table was randomized (sorted on column C), the re sorted on column F, with the expected ('correct') results.
One more check. I selected column B, where the original list had been pasted, and set the formatting to Automatic:
AHA!
Text is automatically aligned to the left side of cells. The two misbehaving items were not being interpreted as text, but as a numeric or quasi numeric value.
Numbers sees both of these as duration values—1d = one day, 1h = one hour.
Sorted in ascending order, one hour is less than, and comes before one day, and all numerical and quasi numerical values come before alphabetical (text) values.
Numbers is sorting the list correctly, using its interpretation of each value. To make it sort correctly in our view, you'll need to force numbers to see those values as text, most easily done by formatting the column as text before typing or before pasting, using Paste and Match Format, in the Edit menu.
Thanks for that question; it was an interesting one.
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As has been stated (or implied) above, every every date and/or time displayed in Numbers is a Date and Time value marking a specific instant in time.
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pmalone wrote:
How do I have a header column not sort along with the other columns. for example, if I have a spread sheet with all my contacts and there is a numbers header column on the left, how do I get the last name column to sort but not have the header column sort along with it?
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