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.

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

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 ...

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.

Matching One Column Data with Another in Excel. If you don't have a keen eye and a perfect memory, you probably can't spot all the differences between two data columns in a large worksheet.

Placing spreadsheet data into a table quickly formats it and makes it easy to work with and analyze. Here’s how to use this basic yet powerful Excel tool.