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New Excel sort cells action not working?

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Could someone else confirm this for me? :

 

I'm using the new Excel sort cells action and was hoping to use it for a project that would usually be done with a macro.

 

Unfortunately this action doesn't seem to work when using any mode other than "Table", but I need to select a specific range of cells as the table isn't specified as a table in excel, its just written (don't ask me why I 'unno).

 

So I choose the "range of cells" mode, tell it that the first row line is the name of the columns and run it, however it always fails and tells me that it can't find the column I'm looking for to sort, is anyone else getting this issue?

 

Thanks.

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    @Pavel_NaNoi 

     

    If we specify the column name, it doesn't function for me either.

    However, if we specify columns as A, B, C, D, it works perfectly.

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    Yep that works, interesting, thanks for the info!

     

    Hopefully they fix this at some point as otherwise what's even the point of that toggle ^^.

     

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