FinanceTier 112 minintermediate

Sorting Safely Without Breaking Alignment

Sort a transaction list by date without leaving amounts paired with the wrong row.

What you will learn

• Sort a full row together, not just one column, so every value moves with the row it belongs to
• Explain why sorting only a date column leaves the amounts behind, silently mismatching every transaction
• Verify a sort by checking that a known date still carries its known amount afterwards

Excel skills

Sort · Sorting and Filtering

The task

This transaction list is not in date order. Sort it by Date, oldest first - making sure each amount stays paired with the date it actually belongs to. Sort the whole row together, not just the Date column on its own.

You work in a real spreadsheet in your browser, and your answer is checked against hidden traps the moment you submit.

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