Use Excel's "Freeze Panes" functionality to lock rows or columns in place. Use Excel sort features to organize data in alphabetical or numerical order.

Isolating each piece of data and then inserting it into Excel in alphabetical order can make the task take many times as long. Fortunately, there's a handy feature that helps you avoid this headache.

Excel offers many filtering and sorting options, including color, specific text and alphabetical. So, if you have a "Last Name" column, you can alphabetize it in ascending or descending order ...