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 to Sort Multiple Rows and Columns in Excel. With Microsoft Excel's powerful sorting capabilities, you can enter unsorted data and let the software sort your data numerically, alphabetically or ...

Microsoft's Excel software is one of the best tools for you to organize, analyze, and manipulate data. Here are three ways to compare data in two columns.

1] Compare columns (Find and match different data) In many cases, you will likely have two columns in an Excel spreadsheet with data, and your task is to find out whether or not a data point in ...

Stay tuned Excel supports a second custom support: sorting by multiple columns. In a future article, I’ll show you how to use this same feature to sort by multiple columns.

Microsoft Excel comes with a lot of built-in functionality that doesn't restrict you to comparing data in two columns using only one method.