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

[Guest]

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?

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[gjcase]

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

---Glen

 

[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.