Columns organize data in Excel, and are often used as categories with headers to sort cells. You can simply right-click on an existing column to add another column immediately before it. To add ...

Copy all of the cells from the original column to the first new column. Select the character that divides the data. Depending on your data, this could be a space, a comma, a dash or another character.

The SORT and SORTBY functions let you extract certain columns and rows from a dataset and sort them in a certain order, all while preserving the source data. Even though they work in similar ways, ...