See solution in other versions of Excel: • • • Question: In Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac, I'm trying to put a chart in alphabetical order. There are 6 columns and over 2,000+ rows of information. I need to sort the data by column B (ie: Product column) in alphabetical order. How do I do this? Answer: To apply a sort in Excel, highlight the data that you wish to sort.

Then select the Data tab from the toolbar at the top of the screen. Then click on the Sort button and select Custom Sort from the popup menu. When the Sort window appears, select the data that you wish to sort. In this example, we want to sort by the Product column (column B) in alphabetical order (A to Z). Click on the OK button. Now when you return to the spreadsheet, the data should be sorted.

The following example converts every four rows of data in a column to four columns of data in a single row (similar to a database field and record layout). This is a similar scenario as that which you experience when you open a worksheet or text file that contains data in a mailing label format. In a new worksheet, type the following data.

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Hi LR I know your pain. I have an Excel spreadsheet that does this to me as well. Not sure if it's a Mac thing, but it's an old Excel for Windows spreadsheet that I transferred to the Mac. Oddly, I don't have that problem if I create a new table in the Mac version. Three ways to do what you want: • Enable Autofilter for the table, and then use the Sort option within the Autofilter dropdown on the column you want to sort.

• Do an Custom Sort and specify that ' My list has headers'. • Convert the data to an Excel Table. Click inside the data (make sure Autofilter is off), click the Tables ribbon option, then click the New table button (the first button on the Tables ribbon). This will convert it to a Table and sorting should respect the headers. I hope that helps!