Microsoft Excel's built-in sorting features make it a handy application for small businesses looking to organize a list of events. Say you have a series of upcoming meetings or want to keep track of ...

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, ...

One of the most popular tasks in Microsoft Excel is filtering dates by month, or another particular criterion. However, there are times when the Excel date filter grouping does not work as intended, ...

Fix Excel’s alphabetical month sorting issue with simple tricks. Learn how to group months chronologically using XMATCH and CHOOSECOLS.

You can use Microsoft Excel to set up a simple row-and-column matrix of information, listing income data, itemizing expenses and documenting events. These tasks barely scratch the surface of Excel's ...

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