Which sorting technique does Excel use in the sort function?

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Does anyone happen to know which sorting technique is used in the sort
function of Excel? Is it bubble sort, shell sort, or interchange sort?
 
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Does anyone happen to know which sorting technique is used in the sort
function of Excel? Is it bubble sort, shell sort, or interchange sort?
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Since Excel is written in C/C++, and the standard C library contains qsort,
I would guess, based on nothing else, that some type of implementation of
qsort is used.


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