Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are both great ways to store your information, and both programs make it easy to sort alphabetically. We'll show you how.

Got a whole bunch of data in a row or column that needs to be sorted alphabetically? You can do it with just a few clicks in Excel.

To extract and sort non-adjacent arrays in your data, nest the CHOOSECOLS or CHOOSEROWS functions inside your SORT or SORTBY ...

Use Excel's "Freeze Panes" functionality to lock rows or columns in place. Use Excel sort features to organize data in alphabetical or numerical order.

Knowing how to alphabetize in Excel can be a real time-saver. Here, we look at how to alphabetize columns (and even rows) in an Excel spreadsheet.

Excel offers many filtering and sorting options, including color, specific text and alphabetical. So, if you have a "Last Name" column, you can alphabetize it in ascending or descending order ...

You can alphabetize data in an Excel spreadsheet by row or column using the "Sort" feature, or through the "Data" and "Home" tabs.

Need to find cells with specific text? The COUNTIF formula in Excel has got you covered.