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#How to link cells in excel for sorting series#
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I have tried two methods of highlighting – one by highlighting line 7 (desired horizontal length desired), hold left button of mouse down and cursor on the up-down arrow in the positioning column on the right and dragging all the way to line 856, press shift key (which then highlights the entire area selected), then select DATA and AtoZ sorting, then column desired, then sort key in sorting selection block. I am highlighting all columns except an accumulator column (which has a formula in it) from line 7 (form has headers which I do not want to sort) to line 865, the last line in the spread sheet. However, when I look at the column 6 (which is for auto expenses)and see that it shows “groceries” or some other entirely foreign item to “car expense”, I get worried!

the “B” column category which does sort the columns numerically from 1 to 38. When I sort columns other than this then look at the lines, the column number changes from what it is supposed to be, i.e. I have a document which has 8 columns which I need to sort different ones several times to get the data I desire. _ Author Debra Dalgleish Posted on SeptemCategories Excel tips Watch this short video, to see a couple more examples of sorting a list to change the order of the columns, instead of rearranging the rows.

In this example we want to reverse the column order, so in the Sort dialog box, click the drop down arrow for Order, and select Z to A.Īfter sorting, columns are now in chronological order, with the earliest sales data at the left, and the newest sales data at the right.Īs a final step, you can delete the temporary row that contained the headings.

From the Sort By drop down list, click on Row 1, because that’s where the headings are located.

In the Sort Options dialog box, click Sort Left to Right, then click OK.

On the Ribbon’s Home tab, click Sort & Filter, then click Custom Sort.

In this example I’ll select columns B:Y, which contain the 24 months of data.

Select all the columns that you want to sort.

The next step is sorting columns, based on the new heading row. In this example there are 24 columns, so I’ll drag across all 24 columns to create heading numbers.

Drag to the last column that you want to include in the sort.

Point to the AutoFill handle at the bottom right of the selected range, and when the pointer changes to a small black cross, drag to the right.Select the cells that contain the the two numbers.

#How to link cells in excel for sorting series#

These numbers will be used to create a series of numbers for the sort order.

In the blank row, above the first two columns to be sorted, type 1 and 2.

For example, in the column above the client names, type Client, or simply type Column01.

In the blank row, type headings above the text column, as placeholders.

Insert a blank row above the data, to use for temporary headings.

Later, the new headings will be used for sorting columns into a different order. There aren’t any headings on the downloaded data, so I’ll add a heading row. Here are the steps that I used, to sort the date columns in the Excel list. You could use a macro to sort the columns, if you need to do this frequently, but here are the steps for manually sorting columns instead of rows. In my reports, I want to show the data in chronological order, so I need to reverse the order of the columns.

The oldest data (24 months ago) is in the last column.

The latest data (1 month ago) is in the first column.

#How to link cells in excel for sorting download#

The download has no headings - just the data.

In this example, I’m working with a data download that dumps the previous 24 months of sales. Here are the steps for sorting columns instead of rows in Excel, and there’s a video too. Occasionally, you might need to sort a list horizontally, to put the columns in a different order. For example, you could sort the rows in a Customer list by the customer names in column A. Usually when you sort data in Excel, you sort the rows, to put them in a different order.