To extract and sort non-adjacent arrays in your data, nest the CHOOSECOLS or CHOOSEROWS functions inside your SORT or SORTBY ...

Many people believe that Excel's Power Query Editor is too complex for them—however, it was designed specifically to be user-friendly and is a great way to split data into multiple columns.

Learn how to master custom sorting in Excel with SORTBY, LET, and XMATCH. Organize data dynamically and save time with advanced techniques.

The default is ascending. So if you wanted to sort by “Sales” to produce a list of sales by state ranked from highest to lowest, you would want to sort by the second column in ascending order, ...

Select "Sort" from the drop-down menu that appears. The Sort panel pops up. In the box labeled "Sort by," enter the name of the column containing your numeric data.

In the September 2003 column I erroneously stated that Excel’s Sort function can sort information only in columns (up and down) not in rows (left and right). I should have known better because I’ve ...

Excel supports a second custom support: sorting by multiple columns. In a future article, I’ll show you how to use this same feature to sort by multiple columns.

The Excel software automatically expands rows and columns when you sort data and more room is needed for the extra data. You can stop this feature from occurring in the Excel AutoCorrect ...

This will open the Sort dialog box. By default, the tool will sort by the left-most column in A-to-Z order, and it will assume you have data headers that should be used in the sorting process.