Choose the best way to extract and rearrange your data in Excel.

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, ...

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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I have a spreadsheet that lists products with identifiers that go from C1 up to C1267. Since they are all unsorted, I tried to use Excel’s Sort function to put them in order, but then I ended up with ...

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 ...

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 ...