Sorting is one of Microsoft Excel’s easiest tasks. Click; you’re done! At least until you need to sort by multiple columns. For this sort task, you’ll need a custom sort. Here’s how. Sorts are a ...

The SORT and SORTBY functions let you extract certain columns and rows from a dataset and sort them in a certain order, all while preserving the source data. Even though they work in similar ways, ...

Splitting the contents of a cell into more than one column manually in Microsoft Excel would take too much time and likely result in errors. Fortunately, the program offers many ways—from built-in ...

Not all sorts in Excel are alphabetical. Sometimes, you need to sort by an irregular set of terms, and when that happens, you need to create a custom sort. Here’s how. Sorting is easy in Excel; you ...

Manually organizing data in Microsoft Excel is a real pain. That's why we don't recommend doing it. One simple task, learning how to alphabetize in Excel, is not necessarily as intuitive as we would ...