Q. I often recruit Excel to do double duty as a database, and there are times I’d like to reverse the order of numbers or names in a table. How can I do that? A. In other words, you want to take a ...

How to Reverse a Column Order in Microsoft Excel. 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 ...

Calculate the difference between two values in your Microsoft Excel worksheet. Excel provides one general formula that finds the difference between numbers, dates and times. It also provides some ...

Every now and then I have to reverse the order of a long list in Excel that is not in alphabetical or numerical order—a tedious job. Do you know of a shortcut? Yes, you can adapt Custom Lists, a tool ...

Sometimes you just want to tell Excel what it is you want your formula to do. It'd be a lot easier if you could just say "sort this data in ascending order and find its average" i ...

This is where the number-crunching fun starts. Learn the ins and outs of the logical formulas that represent the heart of Excel.

Reversing and transposing an Excel data set doesn't have to be a complicated process. Susan Harkins explains how to cut to the chase.