Stay tuned Excel supports a second custom support: sorting by multiple columns. In a future article, I’ll show you how to use this same feature to sort by multiple columns.

Using Built-In Excel Functions Another way to split data into multiple columns is to use some of Microsoft Excel's functions.

Microsoft Excel comes with a lot of built-in functionality that doesn't restrict you to comparing data in two columns using only one method.

Learn how to split one column into multiple columns in Excel. Use Text to Columns and Delimited options and use Delimiters to separate data in Excel.

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.

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.

How to Calculate Multiple Cells in Excel. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program used to store and analyze data. While Excel is able to hold both text and numerical data, most of the pre ...