The Advanced Sort is not that advanced to understand that the table has columns after the empty column. Now while selecting the column, this will show you the columns up to the empty column. That will lead you to the warning and after selecting the Expand the selection option you will be at the Sort dialog box. If you try to select a single column from a dataset that has an empty column within it and click Sort, afraid that’s not a good idea. The Country column has been sorted alphabetically and the rows kept together. We have selected the column, and the order is A to Z. To make things consistent, we are going with the Country column again. Each option is drop-down in type.Ĭlick the dropdown icon under the Column section and select the column you want to sort by. There will be Column, Sort On, and Order. You will find a new dialog box ( Sort) in front of you. Select the Expand the selection and click Sort.
Select a column which to sort and click Sort.Īgain, the selection of one column leads us to the Sort Warning dialog box (if you don’t want this select the entire data). You will find an option Sort in the Sort & Filter section under the Data tab.
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Don’t be afraid of hearing the name “Advanced”, you don’t need to be a professional to understand or use it, rather this tool will lead you towards the professional level and provide you different sorting options. You can also sort the data alphabetically using the Advanced Sort method. The countries are in alphabetic order and carry the respective rows. Since we have selected all the values the Sort Warning will not pop up and you will find the sorted result. At first roll back to the original position. Here Excel found an empty column after the Capital column, so it assumes the table up to that column ( Capital). That didn’t change with the respective country.Įxcel counts the columns together as long as no empty column is found. But! The area and population cause the mismatch.
The countries are in alphabetical order and each country changes the row position along with their respective continent and capital. You will find the alphabetically sorted data. Yes, select Expand the selection and click Sort. The Sort Warning dialog box will pop up and you know which option to select for the context of our task. Now as previously, select the Country column and click A to Z sort option. To demonstrate we have inserted a column in between the Capital and Area column. But if we have an empty column (s) between the adjacent columns of a table, what then?
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In the earlier section, we have seen how to sort when we don’t have any empty columns. So we have completed our desired task of sorting alphabetically and keep rows together. You will find the countries sorted alphabetically. Rollback a bit and select the Expand the selection option. You can see the Country column has been sorted alphabetically. If we go with the second one our data will be sorted but only for the particular column that we have selected. Here we will find two options: Expand the selection and Continue with the current selection. Since here we have selected only one column, a Sort Warning dialog box will pop up (follow the image below). Excel is a smart application when you select a single column from a couple of columns it will trigger a warning. Conventionally our alphabetical order is A to Z, so we will use this option.Ĭlick the option (A to Z). There you will see an option called A to Z. In this section, we are going to see how to sort when our dataset doesn’t have any empty column (s) in between.įirst of all, select any of the column range you want to sort, here we are sorting on basis of the Country column.Įxplore the Data tab and you will find several sorting options. We can sort our data alphabetically using this type of sort. The Quick Sort method provides the chance to sort the data with just one or two clicks.
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