Fix Excel’s alphabetical month sorting issue with simple tricks. Learn how to group months chronologically using XMATCH and CHOOSECOLS.

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, ...

Have you ever struggled to sort data in Excel in a way that truly fits your needs? Imagine trying to organize a list of regions not alphabetically, but in a specific order like “North, South, East, ...

Can Excel sort by color? Absolutely. In addition to sorting by values, Excel can sort by cell color, font color, and cell icon. First, you must you must define the colors for your sort columns/fields.

Excel spreadsheets do so much, from making lists to crunching numbers to acting as sophisticated flat-file databases. We’re creating this guide to make sure you master all the essentials and more.

Let’s say you have a student gradebook file open in Excel and it contains information for the students in your class. As you look through the students’ grades, you highlight the names of students to ...

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Let’s check out these steps in detail. Open the spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel on your computer. After that, you should see a column containing all the dates. You need to select all the cells that ...

FILTER works well with other Excel functions like SORT and UNIQUE to create powerful data management combinations. You can nest FILTER inside SUM or AVERAGE formulas to calculate values from filtered ...

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