Sometimes, if you had a data range with headers and no gaps, and if you clicked on a header in the table, the sort order seemed to stay with the header.
Maybe.
Apparently this is true for Excel 2010. Microsoft documents this (emphases mine):
Sort criteria are saved with the workbook so that you can reapply the sort each time that you open the workbook for an Excel table, but not for a range of cells. If you want to save sort criteria so that you can periodically reapply a sort when you open a workbook, then it's a good idea to use a table. This is especially important for multicolumn sorts or for sorts that take a long time to create.Tables are more special in 2007 than in prior versions of Excel. I found a description of how to do this in an otherwise obscure forum (maybe a splog?) by dFrank:
Why Excel 2007 doesn't save ... Data -> Sort ... settings?:
It is amazing, but why such a simple question take ages to resolve?
Why Microsoft didn't put a huge warning label that SORT ORDER in EXCEL 2007 is now behaves completely different from previous versions.
For years now, I was under impression that is it just a bug, and nothing can be done about it.
Finally, some super-small font on some supper-obscure web site whispers that you only can save sort on a table, but on on a range.
What the h*** is a table. A table is LIST in previous Excel versions. Never heard of it. But we do not need to know about this. Let's just go thorgh the steps:
-01- Select a range of cells just a bunch of columns and convert it to table (Ctrl T);
-02- Remove annoying unneeded table formatting (Design --> Table Style --> Clear);
-03- Remove filters (Data - Filter);
-04- Apply a sort.
Next time you are in the file, your sort is finally preserved.In my limited testing I don't think you need to remove data filters, they are compatible with tables.
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