This Excel tutorial explains how to sort data in alphabetical order based on one column in Excel 2011 for Mac (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).
Instructions in this article apply to Excel for Microsoft Office 365, Excel 2019, Excel 2016, and Excel 2013 for Windows and Mac. Select a Range to Be Sorted in Excel Before data can be sorted, Excel needs to know the exact range to sort. Download the workbook for free, and use it while learning sorting in Excel. A Simple Sort in Excel. Sorting can be a very simple, two-click process to reorganize the data in your spreadsheet. Let's learn how. In an Excel workbook, start off by clicking in a cell of the column you want to sort.
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Question: In Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac, I'm trying to put a chart in alphabetical order. There are 6 columns and over 2,000+ rows of information. I need to sort the data by column B (ie: Product column) in alphabetical order. How do I do this?
Answer: To apply a sort in Excel, highlight the data that you wish to sort. Then select the Data tab from the toolbar at the top of the screen. Then click on the Sort button and select Custom Sort from the popup menu.
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When the Sort window appears, select the data that you wish to sort by. In this example, we want to sort by the Product column (column B) in alphabetical order (A to Z). Click on the OK button.
Now when you return to the spreadsheet, the data should be sorted.
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How to sort data by column headers instead of rows in Excel?
Generally, we can easily sort data by rows in ascending or descending order. However, have you ever tried to sort data by column headers? This means that you need to sort data horizontally as below screenshot shown.
Sort data by column headers
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Actually, there is an option in Sort function can help you to sort data by column headers.
1. Select the data range you want to sort by column heads, and click Data > Sort. See screenshot:
2. In the popping Sort dialog, uncheck My data has headers, and click Options to display the Sort Options dialog, and check Sort left to right. See screenshot:
3. Click OK. And then select Row 1 from the Row drop down list, and specify the Sort on and Order as you need. See screenshot:
4. Click OK. Now the selected range has been sorted by column headers.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks! Just what I needed, the sort by column heads