As demonstrated below, the SORT function does exactly what you would expect; it sorts the data. The critical point is to notice that it achieves this with a single function in a single cell and spills the other results into the cells below. SORT has four arguments: =SORT(array, [sort_in...
Go toOptionsto select sort orientation (top to bottom/left to right). You can relate this with theby_colargument of theSORTfunction. TheSortoption has one sort level by default, but you can add more levels. Since we will sort the data twice (first by department column, then by salary ...
The below examples show a few typical uses of the SORT function in Excel and a couple of non-trivial ones. Excel SORT by column When you sort data in Excel, for the most part you change the order of rows. But when your data is organized horizontally with rows containing labels and colu...
By_column:Enter False to sort by row, which is the default if omitted, or True to sort by column. This determines the direction of the sort. Now, let's look at examples using the SORT function in Excel. Use the Excel SORT Function You can use the SORT function for a range or array...
=SORTBY(B3:D11,C3:C11,-1) Example: Sort Array by More Than One Column In the above examples we sorted array by just one column. But what if we want to do multi level sorting? Well, this function allows you to do multi level sorting. Let's say you want to first sort the above...
1. The simple SORT function below has only 1 argument (A2:D15). By default, the SORT function sorts by the first column, in ascending order. Note: this dynamic array function, entered into cell F2, fills multiple cells. Wow! This behavior in Excel 365/2021 is calledspilling. ...
Using SORTBY function in Excel - formula examples Below you will find a few more examples of using SORTBY, which will hopefully prove useful and insightful. Sort by multiple columns The basic formula discussed above sorts data by one column. But what if you need to add one more level of ...
TheSMALL Functionreturns the k-th smallest number from a set of data: =SMALL(B2:B8,3) WhileLARGE Functionreturns the k-th largest number: =LARGE(B2:B8,3) We will use theSMALL Functionto sort in ascending order and theLARGE Functionto sort in descending order. ...
The Excel Sort option allows us to customize the order of worksheet data. We can sort data alphabetically, numerically, date-wise, etc. Let’s explore some examples. Method 1 – Using Ascending Order Suppose we have the below dataset, containing several people’s names and their ages. Let’...
Just like we did with the region name list, we'll use the SORT function in this list, to put the employee names in alphabetical order. Because this list has 2 columns, we'll type a 2 as the second argument, to tell Excel to sort by the 2nd column.Follow these steps to sort the ...