How to Keep Excel From Expanding Cells When Sorting. The Excel software automatically expands rows and columns when you sort data and more room is needed for the extra data.

How to use advanced sorting options in Excel Once you’ve mastered the simple sorts–alpha and numeric–you might want to check out the advanced sorting options.

When you are organizing data for your company in a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel, you do not have to manually edit the information, if you want to sort it alphabetically.

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

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.