Use a custom list to sort or fill in a user-defined order. Excel provides day-of-the-week and month-of-the year built-in lists, but you can also create your own custom list.

Sort a list by days of the week or months of the year or sort by priorities in Excel. Or you can create your own custom list for items that don't sort well alphabetically.

You can insert a drop-down list of valid entries (also called a drop-down menu or drop-down box) in Excel to make data entry easier, or to limit entries to certain items that you define.

In Excel for Mac, you can sort a list of data by days of the week or months of the year. Or, create your own custom list for items that don't sort well alphabetically. You can also sort by font …

If a built-in number format does not meet your needs, you can create a new custom number format that is based on an existing number format and add it to the list of custom number formats.

By creating your own custom list, you can get around this problem. In a range of cells, enter the values that you want to sort by, in the order that you want them, from top to bottom as in this …

When publishing a task list, you can either manually select teams from your organization's hierarchy or you can upload a custom list of teams using an Excel file.

In SharePoint or the Microsoft Lists app, export list items shown in the current view to Excel so that you can work with the data in a workbook.

Use data validation rules to control the type of data or the values that users enter into a cell. One example of validation is a drop-down list (also called a drop-down box or drop-down menu). …

If Excel's number formats don't work for you, you can create a custom number format.