Advanced Excel Training in Gurgaon

The traditional sorting methods that we've been using so far present a small problem: what happens if we want to order our list chronologically month wise? Our month names have been entered as text strings rather than dates, so alphabetization will not work: if we sort from A to Z, February will come first, then January, followed by March. And if we sort the other way, March will come first, then January, followed by February. How can we get Excel to sort chronologically month wise without alphabetizing? The answer is simple: with the use of a Custom list. Try selecting your data table and opening the Sort dialogue once again: In the Column section, we will select Month, and in the Order section, we will select Custom List. When we do that, a new dialogue opens: This screen allows us to specify our own custom order of columns by typing them into the List entries section like so: Once you have done this, hit OK to confirm our custom sort and then OK again to perform the s

Now, it is time to get fancy. We have learned how to sort and alphabetize by a single column. But what if we wish to sort by multiple columns — for example, alphabetize our order list by customer name first, but within each "customer name" block sort from the highest-value order to the lowest-value order? We can do this by using Excel's full sort functionality feature. First, we will start by selecting the whole range of data we want to sort. You can do this by clicking and dragging with your mouse to select all the cells you wish to sort, but there is a shortcut: make sure a cell within your data table you have selected, then press Ctrl + A on a PC or ⌘ + A on a Mac. When you are making this selection, it is very important to check to ensure that your entire table is highlighted before proceeding. If there are blank rows, then they may cause the Ctrl + A shortcut to only highlight part of the table; this will mess up your sorting or only partially sort the data. Alway