After spending several months adding customer data to your Excel spreadsheets, they are probably going to become extremely long. Searching through them will become quite a chore. Rather than waste a ...

Manually organizing data in Microsoft Excel is a real pain. That's why we don't recommend doing it. One simple task, learning how to alphabetize in Excel, is not necessarily as intuitive as we would ...

Q. Is it possible to sort a column in Excel using formulas rather than the Data tab’s Sort tool, so the sort process is performed automatically as I update my data? A. Excel has announced a new ...

While your computer's available memory may limit the actual size of your worksheet, Excel 2010 has the capacity to create a spreadsheet that is 1,048,576 rows high by 16,384 columns wide, so you could ...

Microsoft Excel has a great sorting feature that works quite well. However, it is possible to use this feature to sort cells based on their color. Multiple colors are supported, and from our testing, ...

I can’t think of anything more boring than working in a spreadsheet, or more necessary for tracking your bottom line. And therein lies the conundrum. It takes a special person to do it, because the ...

The TOCOL and TOROW functions are just two ways to rearrange data in Microsoft Excel. For example, you can flip the rows and ...

How to sort a single column in Excel without disrupting the rest of the spreadsheet Your email has been sent We tend to view spreadsheet data as a whole, and that’s as it should be. Seldom does a ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2002. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. My spreadsheets ...