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.

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.

Apply Custom Sorting if Needed If your spreadsheet contains multiple columns and you want to keep related data together, use the “Sort” dialog box. Select your entire table, go to the Data tab, click ...