Question

I work on writing the excel Add-In using Excel Interop. I want to get original row index after using sort in Excel. For example:

Original Text in Excel:

       A        B      
    1  Name     Country
    2  Douglas  CA
    3  Alice    US
    

After Sort:

       A        B      
    1  Name     Country
    2  Alice    US
    3  Douglas  CA
    

Orginal named “Douglas” row index is 2. After sorting row index is 3.
How to get original row index(the row index is 2) after sorting?

Answer 1

You cannot find back the original index after you’ve done the sorting because it is too late. Excel doesn’t store the history.

Some tips to solve this:

• add an index brefore sorting (in a new column for instance)
• store the value before sorting (in your VBA, in a multidimensional array for instance)