Numbers Will Not Sort

I am a previous Excel user and had no problem sorting columns. I have been using Numbers for a month now and can't seem to accomplish this on my spreadsheets. I am following instructions but nothing happens, except for a bell I hear after hitting the "enter" key. Are my sheets "locked" somehow? Should I be checking somewhere else for clues?
Sequence I am following: Highlight any cell in my spread sheet---click on "Reorganize"---Go to "Sort" ---set column "A"--- in Ascending order and set to "Sort Entire Table"...press "sort"...hear bell...

Jerrold,
I have a sheet that I use for keeping track of my beekeeping hobby. On this sheet I have the following columns: "A" = Date---"B" = Activities---"C" = Hive #
Column "A" of course has the date of the activity. Column "C" has the bee hive # pertaining to the activity(s) performed. In column "B" I have mostly text describing such information as to bee cluster location, size of colony, quantities of fee or medication given to that particular hive. So as an example, if I have to administer "two and one halve cups' of medicated syrup, in "Excel" I would type "2 + 1 + / + 2" which would be converted to "2 1/2". My "Activities" column would reflect the fraction "2 1/2" while my "Date" column would remain unchanged. In "Numbers" I was able to include the fraction under my "Activities" column for one incident. I think that I accomplished this by using the "Inspector" on top of the sheet. The next time that I tried to enter a second date to record additional information the date column would not allow me to enter a correct date format. I would get the fraction. Even though the previous dates on the sheet remained unchanged any additional entries would not stay in date format. That's when I had to do what I posted previously. So now that my dates are ok I can not enter fractions so that they would "shrink" down to what I want the cell to reflect. As an example with the 2 1/2 cups...I would like the "2" to remain a large font and the "1/2" to shrink down. Hope this helps explain what I am looking to do.
gaucho10

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