Not all sort tasks in Microsoft Excel begin with the characters to the left, but getting around that issue is easier than you think. Susan Harkins shows you how.

The RIGHT function instructs Excel to go to the far right of the text string; “T3” tells Excel that the text string is in cell T3; and LEN tells Excel to determine how many characters are in the text ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, but we've selected the most popular, from date and time functions to mathematics and simple data manipulation.

Because there are hundreds of functions to choose from, Excel groups functions into categories to make it easier to find the right function for a particular calculation.