Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, and other spreadsheet software offer powerful sorting tools to help you rearrange your data. Knowing how to sort your spreadsheets makes the data easier to see and use.

One formula filters, dedupes, and ranks your data into a live list. No more manual sort or remove duplicates.

In addition to the new SORT function, you may also find the new FILTER and UNIQUE array functions useful. For example, the worksheet on the next page contains a detailed listing of invoices in columns ...

Google Sheets packs many convenient features, one of the more vital ones being the ability to sort your data in alphabetical and numerical order to make sense of it all. Here’s how to sort in Google ...

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If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code. You are probably familiar ...