You can alphabetize data in an Excel spreadsheet by row or column using the "Sort" feature, or through the "Data" and "Home" tabs.

Sorting is one of Microsoft Excel's easiest tasks. Click; you're done! At least until you need to sort by multiple columns. For this sort task, you'll need a custom sort. Here's how.

How do I automatically sort Excel by color? All you have to do is click on the AutoFilter arrow located next to the column heading you want to sort, then choose Sort by Color via the dropdown menu.

SEE: How to use Find All to manipulate specific matching values in Excel (TechRepublic) Listing A shows a macro that automates the simple two-column sort that we ran in the last section.

You can sort data by dates in Microsoft Excel and Excel Online. Learn how to sort all the columns according to date column using this tutorial.