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I have an excel file (see the picture) for which I want to specifically arrange my data.

What I want is "col1" to be arranged from the most past date, so 5/1/2016 then 5/2/2016 and so on. With that, I want "col2" to have everything in alphabetical ascending order, and the dates in "col3" to be just like in "col1". The key column is "col1" meaning everything needs to based on that.

I did it manually, but I can't do that with 1000 lines in excel.

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Use the custom sort function in sort & filter. Then you can add levels

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  • This can actually be simplified by just clicking the sorting button for each column as I stated in my answer. No need for a custom sort.
    – Leviathan
    May 6, 2016 at 16:18
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It should suffice to just do this:

  1. Sort col3 ascending
  2. Sort col2 ascending
  3. Sort col1 ascending

(sorting is done in the Data ribbon by clicking the A-Z button)

Since the sorting algorithm that is employed by Excel is stable, the existing order is kept for entries with the same value. Thus sorting multiple times on different columns in the reverse order you mentioned should solve your problem.

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