If you regularly work with data sets in Excel, you know how important it is to be able to quickly find the information you need.

If it's a list of numbers, click "Number Filters." If it's a text list, click "Text Filters." Select the filtering options you want to apply, enter your conditions and then click "OK" to apply ...

When you want to filter all of the rows, the Select All option will apply the filter to your entire Excel table. Examples of filters for sorting text entries include Sort A to Z and Sort by Color.

Image: Imam Fathoni, Getty Images/iStockPhoto. Returning the top or bottom n records of a data set in Excel isn’t difficult, and there are many ways to do so. You can filter, use expressions, or ...

Filters are another way to achieve the same aim in Excel. Here is how to use filters to delete blank rows: Click the Filter dropdown arrow in a column of your dataset where some rows are blank.