Have you ever grouped data in Excel only to find your months sorted alphabetically instead of chronologically? It’s a frustrating quirk of the GROUPBY function, one that can turn a clean dataset into ...

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, ...

Reversing the order of a column would be easy if the column was already listed alphabetically or sequentially; you would just sort in the other direction. However, data may not be in alphabetical or ...

It's easy to alphabetize data in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet by row or column using the "Sort" feature. You can also alphabetize in Excel using shortcuts found in the "Data" or "Home" tabs. One of ...