Sorting Column A & Include date in the Entire Row

[sgreene1]

I'm a fairly new user to Excel 2003. I have data in Columns A-D, with Column
A as the "main" column to be sorted alphabetically. But when I sort, I need
the finished table to contain the rest of the data from Columns B-D. We have
also skipped rows to leave the finished product easier to read.
Each time I have attempted to sort though, the data in Column A does sort
alphabetically, but only in a row-by-row fashion with no spaces, AND leaving
all the data from the rest of the columns in their initial locations, thus
not matching to its keyword in Column A.
Thanks

 

[RonaldoOneNil]

Highlight all columns A-D and then click sort. You can then sort by column A
and the rest of the columns will sort accordingly. Unfortunately blank rows
will not be kept in the sorted data.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Make sure you select the range to sort (A19999???) before you use data|sort.
If you aren't explicit with the range to sort, then excel will guess. And if
you have empty rows/columns, you're probably not going to like the way excel
guesses.

But when you sort your range, those empty cells will sort just like any other
data.

I always think it's a bad idea to insert empty rows for readability's sake.

Instead, I'd change the rowheight of the last row in a "group". I'd use a macro
so that I could reapply that formatting whenever I needed it.