How to Sort Data by Rows Instead of Columns in Your Excel

Excel has many features that can help you finish many tiring tasks. And the feature of sort can help you quickly find certain values in a bunch of numbers. But today we will introduce how to sort data by rows instead of columns.

The sort feature is a very useful feature in Excel. Thus, most of you have used this function to sort certain columns. However, the default setting of sort can only take effect in columns. Thus, if you want to sort values in rows, you need to set before you use this feature. And the following are steps of how to set data by rows.

Sort Values by Rows

In this image, you can see that there are many employees and their sales volume.

And now you want to know in which season they have the best sales volume. Thus, you can adjust your business strategies according to the statistics. But you need to sort values of rows. So you can follow the steps.

1. Select the area where you want to sort values.
2. Click the button “Sort & Filter” in the ribbon. And then you will see a new menu pop up.
3. In the menu, click the option “Custom Sort”. And the new window will pop up.
4. In this window, click the “Options”.
5. Now you will see another new window. Choose the second option “Sort left to right”.
6. Click “OK”.
7. In the “Sort” window, choose the row which you want to sort values. And here we choose row 2. You can also choose according to your need.
8. In the order option, you can choose “Smallest to Largest” or the other direction. And this is also based on your need.
9. Now click “OK”. Thus, the sales volume will change the order according to the setting.

You will see that the seasons order also change. And in this worksheet, John did best in Season 2. Therefore, you can continue using this method to know the volume about other employees. With this tip, you will have no worry about a transposed worksheet.

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