How do I stop column headers from being sorted in a row?

[Sally the newbie]

I have always sorted a column in Excel by clicking on one cell in the column
to highlight it and then clicking on the A-Z or Z-A icons. Now the column
headings are sorted along with the other data in the column. The headings
are in a different font and the panes in the row are frozen. Why are they
being sorted? Do I need to change something else?

[bigwheel]

Is the row below your heading blank? If not, it will be sorted with the rest
of your data. If there is a blank row, the method you use should work the
way you want.

"Sally the newbie" wrote:

> I have always sorted a column in Excel by clicking on one cell in the column
> to highlight it and then clicking on the A-Z or Z-A icons. Now the column
> headings are sorted along with the other data in the column. The headings
> are in a different font and the panes in the row are frozen. Why are they
> being sorted? Do I need to change something else?

[gjcase]

You can use Data/Sort and select My list has Headers on the check box...

---Glenn

[Dave Peterson]

Sometimes if the header row is formatted differently (Bold???), excel will guess
that your data has headers correctly.

But for me, I'll select my range and then do data|sort and tell excel that it
has headers (or not).

I don't trust excel to guess correctly. Too many things can go wrong if it
guesses the range incorrectly.

Sally the newbie wrote:
>
> I have always sorted a column in Excel by clicking on one cell in the column
> to highlight it and then clicking on the A-Z or Z-A icons. Now the column
> headings are sorted along with the other data in the column. The headings
> are in a different font and the panes in the row are frozen. Why are they
> being sorted? Do I need to change something else?

--

Dave Peterson