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Sorting IP addresses in Excel

Sometimes you need to manipulate lists of IP addresses in Excel but of course it sorts on strings which is not ideal for IP addresses. A quick way to sort is adding another column with the following formula and sorting on that new column.

=((VALUE(LEFT(B6, FIND(".", B6)-1)))*256^3)+((VALUE(MID(B6, FIND(".", B6)+1, FIND(".", B6, FIND(".", B6)+1)-FIND(".", B6)-1)))*256^2)+((VALUE(MID(B6, FIND(".", B6, FIND(".", B6)+1)+1, FIND(".", B6, FIND(".", B6, FIND(".", B6)+1)+1)-FIND(".", B6, FIND(".", B6)+1)-1)))*256)+(VALUE(RIGHT(B6, LEN(B6)-FIND(".", B6, FIND(".", B6, FIND(".", B6)+1)+1))))

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