Numbers sorting problem

I know that this problem may have been asked before but I searched and could not find a similar situation.
I have a spreadsheet that will not sort the contents of a cell correctly. As an example, the table has two columns, the first is formatted as a date, the second as text data. I enter dates in random order and just put a, b, c, d etc in order in the second column. Selecting one cell in the second column, I add background color and a black line border.
When I sort using the date column, the color background moves with the letter but the black border stays at the original cell address.
Is this a bug, or have I missed a setting somewhere?

Yes, it does do that. Without documentation saying what it is supposed to do, it isn't proper to call it a bug. Maybe that was an intended result. Seems kind of strange to move the fill color but not the borders but I can think of examples where you might want it that way, or the opposite way, or for both to move or neither to move.
Edit: I note that Excel 2008 does the same thing. Therefore it makes it very difficult to call it a bug. I do not know if Excel has any settings to change that behavior. To my knowledge, Numbers does not.
Message was edited by: Badunit

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