It's often useful to freeze header rows in place in Microsoft Excel to remember what type of data is in various columns as you scroll or search through a lengthy spreadsheet. You can also make sure ...

I have a simple spreadsheet with 15 columns and ~200 rows. At some point when doing a custom sort on it, one of the columns was not selected, therefore destroying the relationship of the data. Excel ...

With Microsoft Excel's powerful sorting capabilities, you can enter unsorted data and let the software sort your data numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. You can sort all the rows in a ...

Microsoft Excel makes it easy to analyze and organize large datasets. However, when working with large spreadsheets, you can lose track of what each column or row represents. And scrolling back to the ...

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, ...

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Excel spreadsheets do so much, from making lists to crunching numbers to acting as sophisticated flat-file databases. We’re creating this guide to make sure you master all the essentials and more.