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Productivity Tools. Inserting A Formula

The document discusses productivity tools in Microsoft Excel for sorting and filtering data in a worksheet. It describes how to sort data in ascending or descending alphabetical or numerical order by selecting the data and choosing sort options. It also explains how to filter data to view only rows that meet specific criteria by selecting the column to filter on.

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Productivity Tools. Inserting A Formula

The document discusses productivity tools in Microsoft Excel for sorting and filtering data in a worksheet. It describes how to sort data in ascending or descending alphabetical or numerical order by selecting the data and choosing sort options. It also explains how to filter data to view only rows that meet specific criteria by selecting the column to filter on.

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Productivity Tools

(sorting and filtering)


• The data is entered onto a worksheet in a fairly order and when there is a large

amount of data you might struggle to find specific entry by just looking through the

work sheet.

• Microsoft office excel provides easy sorting options.

• Sorting is the process of arranging data in order. E.g., sorting (arranging) data can

be done through from A to Z and from Z to A.

• Sorting can also be done when you want to rank results from highest to lowest and

vise versa.
1. Highlight the data that you want to sort.

Note: it is very important that you select all the data you want all the columns, if

you select some of the columns, you might cause data to become jumbled.

2. Click on the sort and filter option on the Home tab. A menu appears with various

sort and filter options.

3. Choose A to Z to sort text in alphabetical order or numbers in ascending order.

4. Choose Z to A to sort text in reverse alphabetical or numbers in descending order.

These will options will perform the sort operation on the first column of your

selection.
• Filtering is another method by which you can view data to

meet specific requirements. For example, you may only want

to view the heights of boys in heights workbook. You simply

select the column containing the condition you want to filter.

• Filtering: this is the process of showing a list of data that

meets a certain criterion condition.

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