Excel 2024: Sort Left to Right


April 22, 2024 - by

Excel 2024: Sort Left to Right

Every day, your IT department sends you a file with the columns in the wrong sequence. It would take them two minutes to change the query, but they have a six-month backlog, so you are stuck rearranging the columns every day.

9 columns of data are presented in a crazy order. Last Name is in A. Apartment is in B. Street is in C. Company in D.
9 columns of data are presented in a crazy order. Last Name is in A. Apartment is in B. Street is in C. Company in D.

You can reorder the columns with a left-to-right sort.

Add a new row above the data. Type numbers to represent the correct sequence for the columns.

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