When sorting your Excel tables and worksheets in Office 2011 for Mac, you’re likely to use ascending and descending sort orders most often. The quick way to sort a table or data range is to select a cell in the column you want to sort. Then go to the Ribbon’s Data tab, find the Sort and Filter group, and click Sort. The first time you click this button, the sort is lowest to highest or alphabetical. Click the button again to sort highest to lowest or reverse alphabetically.
Don’t click the column letter before sorting. If you do, the sort will be applied only to the contents of the column, not the entire table or data range.
After 27 years, Microsoft changed the name of this feature from AutoFilter to just Filter? R.I.P., AutoFilter. The Filter feature places a button to the right of each cell in the header row of a table or data range. Filter is turned on by default when you make a table, and you can see these buttons in the header row of a table. You can toggle Filter on or off by pressing Command-Shift-F. When you click the Filter button in a column header, the Filter dialog displays. The column header label is the title of the dialog. Filter lets you sort and filter.
Step 4: Do filter on column D. As we want to do filter by the criteria in sheet2 column A, so we only keep the rows which its D column value is 1. Select on D column in sheet1, click on Data-Filter, check on filter value 1, then click OK. Then we get the same result. Related Functions. In Excel for Mac, you can sort a list of data by days of the week or months of the year. Or, create your own custom list for items that don't sort well alphabetically. You can also sort by font color, cell color, or icon sets.
Sorting data in Excel tables
The upper portion of the Filter dialog is for sorting:
Ascending: Click this button to sort the column from lowest to highest or alphabetically.
Descending: Click this button to sort the column from highest to lowest, or reverse alphabetically.
By Color: If you have applied color formats to a table, you can use this pop-up menu to sort by cell color or font color.
Filtering data in Excel tables
Beneath the Sort functionality is the Filter section of the Filter dialog. Usually, you know what you’re looking for in a column, so the first thing to do is either type what you want in the search filter or choose it from the Choose One pop-up menu and form field. Starting at the top of the Filter options you can choose:
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By Color: Show records in your column that match the cell color, font color, or cell icon. If you haven’t applied colors or conditional formatting, this pop-up menu is inactive.
Choose One: Select a criterion from this pop-up menu. Then, in the pop-up menu to the right, you can select a record from the column that matches the set of conditions.
Check boxes: You can select and deselect these boxes to display only rows that match the selected items.
Clear Filter button: Removes all criteria from the entire Filter dialog so that no filter or sorting is performed.