Sorting issues

Question

I'm trying to become M$ free and committed to convert all my excel files to Numbers. I have a column with a time value in it - I'm try to sort it is ascending order. It's a mess - doesn't work. I tried a work around and converted the time to it's equivalent in seconds but just a plain number and tried again. Same result - not sorting correctly - the 2 digit numbers sort correctly as do the 3 digit ones - but the 3 digit ones are sorted 1st then the 2 digit ones. I don't know how to post a picture of it here but this is what it does.
100
102
105
112
115
115
124
140
181
192
199
241
33
34
34
34
44
45
45
50
55
56
56
57
57
57
60
61
63
66
66
67
74
77
78
80
80
84
85
85
95
and this is what it looked like when sorting my time column (ascending)
1:40
1:42
1:45
1:52
1:55
1:55
2:04
2:20
3:01
3:12
3:19
4:01
:33
:34
:34
:34
:44
:45
:45
:50
:55
:56
:56
:57
:57
:57
1:00
1:01
1:03
1:06
1:06
1:07
1:14
1:17
1:18
1:20
1:20
1:24
1:25
1:25
1:35
TIA

Answer 1

I have seen this anytime the numbers are seen as text ( in any spreadsheet program ). If you notice the three digits are all 1's and 2's in the first charcter. Your two digits start with 3. They are being sorted alphabetically.
check the format on the columns your trying to sort. That is most likely the problem.
Jason