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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007
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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007

by Bill MrExcel Jelen
December 2006
Beginner
1080 pages
30h 43m
English
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Chapter 14. Sorting Data

In this chapter

Introducing the New Sort Dialog 288

Using Specialized Sorting 289

One-Click Sorting 294

Sorting Randomly 295

Sorting data is one of the key capabilities of a spreadsheet program such as Excel. With a click of the mouse, you can rearrange data so that it is presented in an alphabetical sequence or in a sequence with the largest numbers at the top or bottom of a list of data.

One of the considerations when sorting is what happens when there are ties in the column upon which the sort is based. If you have a database of product sales and sort the data by the product field, it is likely you will have many rows with identical products. In that case, you can specify a secondary sort criteria. You might want to ...

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