Microsoft Excel sorts slider buttons alphabetically and numerically. Fortunately, you can add a custom sort list to sort the buttons in a more meaningful way, when necessary.

Pivot tables in Google Sheets summarize smaller sets of data from a more extensive dataset and can be sorted by rows, columns, values, and filters.

A PivotTable is an easy way to display the first and last time from a timestamp in Excel. If a PivotTable is acceptable reporting, it’s the easiest solution.