Click Home tab arrow under Sort & Filter, and then click Sort Oldest to Newest, or Sort Newest to Oldest. NOTE: If the results aren't what you expected, the column might have dates that are stored as text instead of dates. Convert dates stored as text to dates. In this video we're going to learn how to sort by date in Excel. It's a straightforward method using the excel date formula as well as the excel today's date.
- On a Mac however, it seems to be treating the same date field as text.so the sort might display 2Feb2007 before 3Jan2007 because 2 comes before 3.ignoring the rest of the date. The Mac user can take an extra step and change the format to 'date' manually but for some reason they must click on each cell.they can't do it by column.
- See the Excel Help topic: Sort a list of data, particularly the links entitled Sort a list by one column & Sort a list by two or three columns. If you continue to have a problem please be more descriptive of how the data is arranged, clarify how you want to sort it, and in exactly what way the suggested method fails to provide the result you need.
How to sort a column but keep intact rows in Excel?
Suppose you have multiple columns in a worksheet, now you want to sort a column and keep its intact rows order as below screenshot shown. Here I will tell you some ways to solve this problem in Excel.
Sort a column but keep rows by Advanced Sort function
Sort a column but keep rows by Sort function
In Excel, you can use the Sort function to sort a column and keep rows.
1. Select the column data you want to sort, and then click Data > Sort. See screenshot:
2. In the Sort Warning dialog, keep Expand the selection option checked, and click Sort.
3. In the Sort dialog, specify the criterion that you will sort on and the sorting order. See screenshot:
4. Click OK. Now the selected column has been sorted and the intact rows are still kept.
If you want to sort the column data based on the absolute values, the Sort function of Excel cannot directly help you sort them. Now I introduce the Advanced Sort of Kutools for Excel for you.
Sort a column but keep rows by Advanced Sort function
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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:(Free Download Kutools for Excel Now!)
1. Select all the data range and then click Kutools Plust > Sort > Advanced Sort. See screenshot:
2. In the Advanced Sort dialog, select the column you want to sort, and then select the criterion you want to sort on, then select the sorting order. See screenshot:
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3. Click Ok. Now the selected column data has been sorted with intact rows kept.
If you are interested in Kutools for Excel’s Advanced Sort utility, you can click here to know more detail about this utility.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.'Intact rows' - what is that???
I can't tell you how incredibly MORE helpful this would be if you had used text in... whatever remained unsorted. As it is I have NO idea what you are trying to illustrate- it's just a jumble of random numbers. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Only sorted column selected didn't bring along rows...useless
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.check Expand the selecton option in the Sort Warning dialog, it can sort the relatied rows together.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.The screen capture for step 2. In the Sort Warning dialog, keep Expand the selection option checked, and click Sort. needs to show 'Expand the selection'