Excel's ascending and descending sort options are powerful tools, but they won't always sort values in a familiar and meaningful way. When this is the case, you might need a custom sort.

Can Excel sort by color? Absolutely. In addition to sorting by values, Excel can sort by cell color, font color, and cell icon. First, you must you must define the colors for your sort columns ...

You can filter data in Excel based on either certain parameters in columns or over the whole sheet, and you can later unfilter the sheet.

Use implicit And and Or operators with Excel's Advanced Filter feature to create complex, but powerful, filtering combos.