Have you ever struggled to sort data in Excel in a way that truly fits your needs? Imagine trying to organize a list of regions not alphabetically, but in a specific order like “North, South, East, ...

In addition to the new SORT function, you may also find the new FILTER and UNIQUE array functions useful. For example, the worksheet on the next page contains a detailed listing of invoices in columns ...

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 ...

When you are organizing data for your company in a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel, you do not have to manually edit the information, if you want to sort it alphabetically. Instead, you can use the ...

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4 ways to extract sort characters from data when they aren’t at the beginning of the value in Excel Your email has been sent Software Installation Policy Five ...

How to return the top or bottom n records without a filter or PivotTable in Excel Your email has been sent Returning the top or bottom n records of a data set in Excel isn’t difficult, and there are ...