How to Sort Multiple Rows and Columns in Excel. With Microsoft Excel's powerful sorting capabilities, you can enter unsorted data and let the software sort your data numerically, alphabetically or ...

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.

SEE: How to use Find All to manipulate specific matching values in Excel (TechRepublic) Listing A shows a macro that automates the simple two-column sort that we ran in the last section.

Excel has options to sort a single column of data, as well as options to group multiple columns together while you sort them.

You can filter data in Excel based on either certain parameters in columns or over the whole sheet, and you can later unfilter the sheet.

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 ...

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.