Quit the data-search struggle by organizing your raw data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Rather than manually scrolling through a list of disorganized records, use Excel's built-in tools to find ...

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, ...

Sorts are a simple task in Microsoft Excel if all you need is an ascending or descending sort. Excel is smart enough that it can interpret the data range. Not all sorts are so easy. Fortunately, Excel ...

If you run sorts in Excel a lot, you might benefit from shortcuts or even a macro. Here are some ways to make your sorting life easier. Sorting data is easy and for the most part, Microsoft Excel ...

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If you need to sort, filter, and manipulate your Excel 2007 data but you don't know how to take advantage of Filters, I have just the thing for you. Watch this two-minute long Business Hacks exclusive ...

Microsoft Excel is a useful tool for managing data sets large and small. But it can quickly turn frustrating if you're unsure how to get the desired outcome to sort your spreadsheet with so many menu ...

Learn when FILTER beats XLOOKUP, when it does not, and how to handle multiple matches, nth items, and multi-condition lookups with clear steps.

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number. This can be hard-coded inside double quotes or a reference to a cell ...

We’ve all been there—staring at a messy Excel spreadsheet filled with merged cells, inconsistent formats, or cryptic data that seems impossible to untangle. Whether you’re prepping a report for your ...

Microsoft Excel has more dataviz capabilities than you may realize. Find out how to make your data stand out with charts, PivotTables, sparklines, slicers and more. Everyone knows Microsoft Excel as a ...