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How to Sort by Multiple Columns in Google Sheets: A Guide

November 14, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

Sorting by multiple columns in Google Sheets is a breeze once you know where to look. Simply select your data range, then click on ‘Data’ …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides
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How to Rename Columns in Google Sheets: A Step-by-Step Guide

November 14, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

Renaming columns in Google Sheets is a straightforward process that involves simply double-clicking on the column header, which is the cell at the top that …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides
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How to Freeze Columns in Google Sheets

June 15, 2023February 8, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

If you’ve worked on a big spreadsheet in Google Sheets and you needed to reference data in the first column, then you might have been …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides
how to move a column in Excel 2010

How to Change Column Order in Excel 2010

June 21, 2023February 6, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

The initial structure of a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2010 isn’t always perfect, and you sometimes need to put rows or columns in different locations. …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to AutoFit All Columns in Excel 2013 (An Easy 4 Step Guide)

June 18, 2023November 25, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

It’s really easy for your column widths and row heights to be sized incorrectly. You might drag a row or column divider by accident, or …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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Why is My Worksheet Backwards in Excel 2010?

July 5, 2023November 4, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel has a couple of different potential layouts, though many people will only ever see one. A layout option that can be really confusing …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Worksheets
how to combine three columns into one in Excel 2013

How to Combine Three Columns Into One in Excel

July 28, 2023October 28, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

It’s often a good idea to separate as much information as possible in Microsoft Excel. Depending on what you are going to be using that …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Concatenate, Formulas, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Switch a Row to a Column in Excel 2013

June 19, 2023September 30, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

While you might have a good idea of the layout of the data that you are adding to a spreadsheet, changes in the scope of …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Use the AutoFit Excel Shortcut for Columns and Rows

June 19, 2023September 6, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Adjusting the height of rows or the width of columns in Microsoft Excel is a common activity. But if it’s something that you do a …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rows
how to change the width of multiple columns in excel 2013

How to Make All Columns the Same Width in Excel 2013

June 27, 2023August 11, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel has several tools that can help you format the size of cells. Our article on how to autofit all columns in Excel provides …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to add a column in Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel Add Column Tutorial

June 1, 2023June 14, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

You can do a lot to compare, edit, and evaluate your data when you enter values into a spreadsheet. One common action that people using …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to enlarge a cell in Excel 2010

How to Enlarge Cells in Excel 2010

July 7, 2023June 9, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

The default cell size in Microsoft Excel is rarely going to be correct for the data that you are entering into a cell. You might …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rows
how to switch from two columns to one in google docs

How to Switch Columns in Google Docs

June 16, 2023May 18, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Google Docs documents can contain a lot of different page and formatting options, including the number of columns. So you may be wondering how to …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Docs How-To Guides
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How to Print All Columns in Excel 2010 on One Page

June 30, 2023March 30, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel can be a difficult application to work with when you need to print a spreadsheet. One common problem involves getting your column to …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Fill Column With Same Value in Excel 2010

June 15, 2023March 28, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

It’s possible that you have already noticed how often the mouse cursor can change as you hover over various parts of your spreadsheet. These cursor …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to alphabetize in google sheets

How to Alphabetize on Google Sheets

July 15, 2023February 18, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

There are a lot of tasks that someone might perform manually in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets before they realize that there is a way …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides
how to insert a column in excel 2010

How to Insert a Column in Excel 2010

June 2, 2023November 4, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

When you are putting a lot of data into a spreadsheet it’s really easy to forget something or to decide later that you want more …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to hide a column in google sheets

How to Hide Column in Google Sheets

July 21, 2023August 25, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets provide you with ways to format data, select how that data prints, and adjust how it looks …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides
how to move a column in excel 2013

How to Move a Column in Excel 2013

July 20, 2023July 9, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

If you’ve ever re-typed a lot of data in an Excel spreadsheet, then it’s probably something that you don’t want to do again. So if …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
add a column in word 2013

How to Add Word 2013 Columns

July 3, 2023June 3, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

A new document in Microsoft Word is going to have one column by default. For documents that you create in a scholastic or corporate environment, …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
how to hide columns in Excel 2010

How to Hide Columns in Excel 2010

July 17, 2023May 27, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Sometimes you will have data in a spreadsheet that you don’t need to display but you don’t want to delete. This is the perfect situation …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
split a full name into two cells in excel 2013

How to Split Full Names Into Two Cells in Excel 2013

July 5, 2023March 1, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel has a lot of helpful features for managing data, and many of them can save you a lot of manual work. For example, you …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to resize multiple columns in google sheets

How to Change the Width of Multiple Columns in Google Sheets

June 29, 2023November 20, 2020 by Matthew Burleigh

Adjusting the size of the columns and rows in a spreadsheet application, like Google Sheets, is helpful in making data easier to read. But when …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Featured Sheets, Google Sheets How-To Guides
how to split a document in half in Google Docs

How to Split a Google Doc in Half

August 15, 2023October 13, 2020 by Matthew Burleigh

When you create new documents in Google Docs or upload them to Google Drive, the content that you add will span from the left margin …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Breaks, Columns, Google, Google Docs How-To Guides
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How to Insert a Column in the Google Sheets iPhone App

July 3, 2023August 3, 2020 by Matthew Burleigh

When working with data in a spreadsheet, it’s very common to adjust the rows or columns within that spreadsheet. We don’t always know the exact …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides, iPhone How-To Guides
how to ungroup columns in Google Sheets

How to Ungroup Columns in Google Sheets

June 30, 2023June 26, 2020 by Matthew Burleigh

Grouping columns in spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel provides you with a simple method to hide and unhide large groups of data at once. A …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides
How to Add a Column in Excel for Office 365

How to Add a Column in Excel for Office 365

June 19, 2023August 14, 2019 by Matthew Burleigh

While it may seem like the cells in your Excel spreadsheets are fixed in place, you actually have some options available to you for changing …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Create a Filter in Google Sheets

June 16, 2023August 7, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

Working with spreadsheets that contain a lot of data can be cumbersome, especially when you only need to display some of the information for certain …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides
how to insert a column in google sheets

How to Insert a Column in Google Sheets

August 1, 2023September 22, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

When you start creating a spreadsheet from scratch, you may have a good idea of what the final layout of that spreadsheet will entail. In …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides
how to add columns in google docs

How to Add a Second Column to a Document in Google Docs

May 30, 2023September 19, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

You can add a second column in a Google document by clicking the Format tab at the top of the window, choosing Columns, then clicking …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Docs How-To Guides
how to delete a column in google sheets

How to Delete a Column in Google Sheets

July 7, 2023September 18, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

Deleting and editing data in a cell in Google Sheets is often as simple as clicking on a cell and typing the new information that …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Columns, Google Sheets How-To Guides
how to enlarge a cell horizontally in excel 2013

How to Expand Cells Horizontally in Excel 2013

July 1, 2023March 7, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

While the standard Excel cell width can hold several characters’ worth of data before things start to become hidden, you will probably need to know …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Set Excel Column Width in Inches

July 15, 2023July 26, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

If you’ve ever tried to adjust the width of your columns for printing then you have probably found it to be a little frustrating. This …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Alphabetize in Excel 2013

June 13, 2023June 17, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 provides numerous utilities that allow you to organize, store, and interact with your data. Perhaps one of the most helpful and most commonly …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
change worksheet direction in excel 2013

How to Put Excel Column A on Right Side

August 1, 2023November 20, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

There are some things that you take for granted in applications like Microsoft Excel that you use all the time. One of those things is …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Unhide Column “A” in Excel 2010

June 3, 2023June 3, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Unhiding the first column, or column “A” in an Excel spreadsheet presents a unique challenge. The typical method for unhiding a column will not apply …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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What Are Three Ways to Change Column Width in Excel?

July 20, 2023January 22, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel has a lot of different tools and settings, many of which allow you to perform the same action in multiple ways. One of …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Sort a Date Column in Excel 2013

July 20, 2023July 24, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

Storing dates along with data in an Excel spreadsheet can be helpful when the data in a row is related to that date. But it …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Alphabetize a Column in Excel 2010

June 3, 2023January 31, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

There are many reasons to learn how to alphabetize in Excel, but it is such an important and versatile part of the program that it …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Keep Your Column Widths When You Paste In Excel 2010

May 31, 2023August 28, 2013 by Matthew Burleigh

Copying and pasting data in Microsoft Excel 2010 is one of the best ways that you can save yourself some time. However, this occasionally results …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Copying, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to automatically number columns in Excel 2010

How to Automatically Number Columns in Excel 2010

September 20, 2023August 7, 2013 by Matthew Burleigh

When you need to assign consecutive numbers to rows or columns in Microsoft Excel 2010, it can be very frustrating to do it manually. Aside …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Unhide Columns in Excel

June 30, 2023March 18, 2013 by Matthew Burleigh

Learning how to unhide columns in Excel is important for anyone that has data in their spreadsheet that they might need to hide from their …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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Microsoft Excel Print All Columns on One Page Guide

July 20, 2023March 11, 2013 by Matthew Burleigh

I know that I have personally had some issues printing in Excel, especially when a spreadsheet has too many columns. If you have more columns …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to hide row and column headings in excel 2010

How to Hide Row and Column Headings in Excel 2010

May 31, 2023July 17, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

The numbers and letters at the top and left side of your Excel 2010 spreadsheet are called headings. They are a helpful way to identify …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Rows
how to split data in one column to two columns in excel 2010

How to Split Data in One Column to Two Columns in Excel 2010

June 21, 2023July 9, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

Correctly formatted data is very important when you are trying to get information into a database or if you are working with a formula in …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to delete a column in word 2010

How to Delete a Column in Word 2010

June 24, 2023June 14, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

When you are creating a document in Word 2010, you have a lot of choices about how that document will be laid out. You can …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
how do i make columns automatically expand in excel 2010

How Do I Make Columns Automatically Expand in Excel 2010?

July 7, 2023June 11, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

The default cell size in Microsoft Excel 2010 can fit approximately 8.5 characters. When you are working with small numbers and no letters, this sizing …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
how to change the size of a cell in Microsoft Excel 2010

How to Change the Size of a Cell in Excel 2010

June 30, 2023June 3, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

Cells in Microsoft Excel 2010 have a default size of 8.43 characters wide by 15 points high. This size is ideal for many situations, but …

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Categories Programs Tags Columns, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides

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