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In this article, we will look at different ways to sort dates in Excel. You will learn how to quickly arrange dates in chronological order, sort by month ignoring years, sort birthdays by month and day, and how to auto sort by date when entering new values. Excel's built-in sort options are powerful and effective tools, but they do not always work correctly when it comes to sorting dates. This tutorial will teach you a few useful tricks to arrange Excel by date in a meaningful way without messing up your data. • • • • • • • • • How to sort dates in chronological order Arranging dates in chronological order in Excel is very easy. You just use the standard Ascending Sort option: • Select the dates you want to sort chronologically. • On the Home tab, in the Formats group, click Sort & Filter and select Sort Oldest to Newest. Alternatively, you can use the A-Z option on the Data tab, in the Sort & Filter group. How to sort by date in Excel The Excel sort options can also be used for re-arranging the whole table, not just a single column. To sort records by date keeping the rows intact, the key point is to expand the selection when prompted. Here are the detailed steps sort data in Excel by date wise: • In your spreadsheet, select the dates without the column header. • On the Home tab, click Sort & Filter and choose Sort Oldest to Newest. • The Sort Warning dialog box will appear. Leave the default Expand the selection option selected, and click Sort: That's it! The records hav...

Sorting data is an integral part of data analysis. You might want to arrange a list of names in alphabetical order, compile a list of product inventory levels from highest to lowest, or order rows by colors or icons. Sorting data helps you quickly visualize and understand your data better, organize and find the data that you want, and ultimately make more effective decisions. You can sort data by text (A to Z or Z to A), numbers (smallest to largest or largest to smallest), and dates and times (oldest to newest and newest to oldest) in one or more columns. You can also sort by a custom list you create (such as Large, Medium, and Small) or by format, including cell color, font color, or icon set. Notes: Potential Issues • Check that all data is stored as text If the column that you want to sort contains numbers stored as numbers and numbers stored as text, you need to format them all as either numbers or text. If you do not apply this format, the numbers stored as numbers are sorted before the numbers stored as text. To format all the selected data as text, Press Ctrl+1 to launch the Format Cells dialog, click the Number tab and then, under Category, click General, Number, or Text. • Remove any leading spaces In some cases, data imported from another application might have leading spaces inserted before data. Remove the leading spaces before you sort the data. You can do this manually, or you can use the Notes: • Potential Issue • Check that all numbers are stored as number...