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.

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

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

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 ...

Other Methods Instead of using Microsoft Excel's sort procedure to organize and reveal patterns in your worksheet data, use the program's filtering options instead.