Filters
Posted by jeggent on September 5, 2017
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A quick way to organize a data table in Excel is with Filters. You can use filters to hide the rows of data that do not match the parameters you specify. These parameters could be lists of values in one or multiple columns or greater-than less-than or ranges for number values. You can also use filters for sorting. To get started, select the column headers that you want included in the data table. Click the Filter icon on the Home or Data menus. Click the new icon next to the column header to see your options. Once you have filtered a table you will see the icon change to a filter and the status bar at the bottom will show how many matches there were. The example below shows “4 of 7 records found”. You can re-select all of the items or click the filter clear icon to un-filter the list.
