To extract and sort non-adjacent arrays in your data, nest the CHOOSECOLS or CHOOSEROWS functions inside your SORT or SORTBY ...

Sorting is one of Microsoft Excel's easiest tasks. Click; you're done! At least until you need to sort by multiple columns. For this sort task, you'll need a custom sort. Here's how.

You can sort data by dates in Microsoft Excel and Excel Online. Learn how to sort all the columns according to date column using this tutorial.

SEE: How to use Find All to manipulate specific matching values in Excel (TechRepublic) Listing A shows a macro that automates the simple two-column sort that we ran in the last section.

Input your events into Excel. To facilitate sorting, enter the dates of your events in column A of your worksheet and the details of your events in column B.

Launch Excel and open the spreadsheet that contains the list that you want to sort. Click to select a range of data, such as A1 through A20, or click the header to select the entire column of data.