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. Sorting is a ...

Microsoft Excel's UNIQUE function does exactly as its name suggests—it extracts unique values from an array. In other words, ...

Excel has several advanced sorting options, but most of us never venture beyond the ordinary alphabetic and numeric sorts. If you need more than a simple sort, check out Excel’s advanced sorting ...

Microsoft Excel is spreadsheet data management software used by many small businesses for day-to-day operational tasks. Excel's convenient cell-based structure lets you input your business' inventory, ...

You can filter data in Excel based on either certain parameters in columns or over the whole sheet, and you can later ...

Microsoft Excel 2007 is one of the main components of Microsoft Office 2007. It is a popular tool used by small businesses to create spreadsheets for tracking important data such as sales and customer ...

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 ...

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You can easily hide and unhide columns in Excel by individually revealing hidden columns or using the "Format" option to ...