Join Dennis Taylor for an in-depth discussion in this video Sort or filter data based on color font or cell color background, part of Excel Tips Weekly.
- [Instructor] When you sort data in Excel … nearly always it means moving rows up and down, … and most of the time it means sorting by content, … but we can also sort on the basis of cell color. … For example, row four has a color background, yellow, … row 12 is green, row 16 is orange, and so on. … And we can sort by color font. … Farther down on this list for example, … row 37 there's a red font, … perhaps some more a bit later too. … We can sort on that basis. … And in column J we've got some … conditional formatting arrows. … Now usually these are in sync with some kind … of textural reference, and we'd probably sort … on the basis of content. … But here too we have an option, sorting by the icons … that we see here. … Let's imagine that we'll deal first with the colors. … Before sorting any lists, recommendation is you … have an orc with a list recently. … Just to make sure click within it, press Control + A, … that highlights the entire contiguous data, … then press Control + period. …
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