Sort Left To Right In Excel
If you’ve covered even the basics of Excel, there is a good chance that at some point you have sorted at least 1 column of data in ascending or descending order.
Sorting up and down is well covered in classes, books, tutorials and with a big button in Excel ribbons that says “Sort”, but if you need to sort from left to right in Excel, do you know how to?
Before this week i never even thought of a need to sort left to right in Excel, it never came up. But then this past week, it came up twice!
In one case, a person was copying rows from a variety of sources and then wanted to sort the columns in order.
In another case, random numbers were being generated across 5 columns and the user needed them put in descending order.
How To Sort Left To Right In Excel
To demonstrate this, I have created a table.
Column A contains a list of names and the remaining columns list fruits.
In this example, we will put columns B to N in alphabetical order from left to right.
1. Select Data
- Highlight the data to be sorted
2. Sort
- Go to the “Data” ribbon
- Click on “Sort”
3. Sort Options
- Click on “Options”
- In the “Sort Options”, set the orientation to “Sort left to right”
- Click “OK”
- Back in the Sort box that you would usually see, select the row that you want to sort by.
- We want to sort by Row 1 of our selection, which contains the column headings.
- Click OK
4. Sort Left To Right In Excel Done
Our table is now sorted from left to right….
It might not be a task that you will use frequently, but when you need to sort left to right in Excel, at least you know it is only an extra step or two more than a standard sort.
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