Excel's ascending and descending sort options are powerful tools, but they won't always sort values in a familiar and meaningful way. When this is the case, you might need a custom sort.

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

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

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.

Microsoft Excel limits sorting criteria to ascending and descending organization in numeric or alphabetic order, by date or time, by the color of cells, type or icons, or against a custom list of ...

How to Keep Excel From Expanding Cells When Sorting. The Excel software automatically expands rows and columns when you sort data and more room is needed for the extra data.

How to filter or sort Excel data using Cell Color Ater adding colors to each cell within your spreadsheet, it’s now time to organize them by using the Sorting feature.

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 ...

Highlighting cells with different colors can help you quickly identify information in a spreadsheet. Excel also lets you sort by color to easily group all the information you’ve highlighted with a ...