How To Use Excel FILTER Function With Multiple Criteria & Return Only the Columns You Need

[@LeilaGharani]

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Hi, It's really a good learning! Just need one query resolution, Can we use both include & exclude(Not(is number(value))) criteria. Eagerly Waiting for your response on my query.

[@jeffrowlanduk]

THANK YOU! After spending AGES trying to use the built in filters to do what I wanted, my brain finally kicked into gear and thought "didn't Leila do a video on this?". If I had only thought of you first, I would have saved loads of time. Boomer alert -getting old sucks.

[@G-Man01]

Hi Leila, I need some help! I have searched through your videos but cannot find the solution for where there are unique values in each column. ie. Each column contains data for a specific month vertically. The vertical data local to that month contains business names and customer names. I want a function to only limit the results displayed to the chosen month. ie. return specific columns (not rows). Every video I've seen on the filter function as well as index/match functions thus far have only been solutions where each column is a singular type of identifier and the results work for rows. Does a solution exist that can produce columns as a result?

[@jeffrowlanduk]

As I understand what you're writing, Row 1 is a Header. Column A is January, Column B is February. etc. ect. Rows 2:nn is data. You want to only display a particular month's data (presumably on another worksheet. Won't choosecols work?.@@G-Man01

[@vaibhavmathur3]

​​@@G-Man01You could combine the Transpose function perhaps in your formula. So before applying the filter, transpose the data, so that the column entries become row entries, and then the Filter function should work as per your requirement.

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I love how detailed you always are showing different scenarios of data extraction on 1 function. Thank you Leila!

[@samanthadaroga4811]

Quite a helpful video. The way you construct your videos with explanatory graphics, clear slow audio, overall managed pace & a moderate video length makes for swift learning of MS Excel. Thank you kindly.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you for the kind feedback

[@GaragePrimo]

I'm doing some other tutorials where they don't teach by making mistakes. I love how you're teaching by making mistakes! It helps align our thinking and understanding with yours.

[@Adam_K_W]

I built a dashboard using all of this in the past week. Choose columns is a nice add! Thanks for all you do.

[@gerwinstokkers619]

This is by far the best excel video ever. Brilliant fucntion and super explained. You can also reorder your coloms in a different order when you as you do as in the example 2;4, you can also 2;4;3 the the coloms will be displayed in that order in the filter function.

[@pc-doctor1416]

Wow, your logical reasoning is amazing. How you retain all this in your head astounds me.

[@MrMorichalion]

This was a neat, clean, and entirely useful tutorial on a common thing one does in SQL. You've saved me time with this. Thank you.

[@My_Mediterranean_Travels]

You re soooo good in explaining both the usage of this function AND also the logic (Boolean logic to be precise) behind it. Many, many thanks for this excellent upload.

[@ildikoharaszi]

I have watched so many videos on building filters, but this is crystal clear, thank you. I finally get it!

[@saibharadwajbadda4539]

I used your Excel videos to give training in my office and it was grand success. Thanks a ton!!❤ Except this particular use case covered in this video...! I also covered a similar case.

[@LeilaGharani]

Happy to hear the content is helpful at your work!

[@wannabedal-adx458]

This is a better way to handle AND or OR functions. I had so many problems in the past with those 2 commands that this seems much easier. Thanks for pointing this out Leila!

[@gufo87]

Thanks!

[@JOSE-du7mu]

Great reminder tip at the end 08:55. (OR belong together), then (AND).

[@djwebmasster]

This is sooo helpful... I use the formulas to NO END!! you explain each step so well. TY TY!! I love these instructional videos!

[@bjarneivarsbjarnesen9759]

Excellent details and explanations. Had an issue trying to filter some data and never got the exact result needed but this just made my day. Thank you!

[@lpanades]

Wonderfull! I used the Index funcition to select the collumns I wnanted exclude for the result. This command "choose" is much more easier to use. Really excell is turning easy.

[@rshawnhall4]

Thanks!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you!

[@MdAbdullahAlMuyid_nowho]

Thanks a ton. I never used Filter and Index formula before, but thanks to your tutorial, I am now able to use both to create a Income Statement where for any drop down product, the whole statement changes.

[@Galileo2pi]

You changed my life; you're the best.

[@williamarthur4801]

Really enjoyed this, I like the fact you stress bracketing, it's so easy to slip up using say sumproduct with multiple and / or criteria, re bring back certain columns, you can also use another filter; filter ( filter range, { 1,0,1,1} ) , where 1 = column to return 0 = ignore. but you can't reorder with this, but

[@DavenportDecals]

Your videos are so well done and you're an Excel Queen!!

[@Pablo_Trader]

Thank You for this video. You have been very helpful. I have been looking for a filter function for Excel. I'm looking forward to trying this out for myself.

[@aicnedvasquez]

Hello Leila! I've tested with three AND criteria and worked! Same syntax shown. Just added a third. Thanks again!

[@azmary986]

This tutorial is fantastic for understanding the FILTER function! I've covered similar Excel functions on my channel, and I love seeing how different approaches can solve similar problems. Keep up the great work!

[@BigSunshine55]

Wonderful, concise, and detailed. Exactly what I needed. Thank you! God bless!

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[@LeilaGharani]

Awesome, welcome aboard!

[@unknowngamer5743]

Loads of thanks for this very very valuable insight on the filter function, I was struggling so hard to get the multiple selections work and you just made me understand how filter works. Thanks thanks thanks.......

[@infaziqbal44]

wow the multiplication and addition explanation was spot on!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful!

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[@subdirectorFLI]

Very clear "to the point" explanation, thank you!

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[@LeilaGharani]

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[@garyallan69]

Thank you so much for that Leila. I have been using a double filter function for ages to get only the columns that I want. Very tedious when there are a lot of columns to put all those 0's and 1's. I will be using Choosecolumns from now on

[@unpred_ton]

Super clear explanation. Love this.

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[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you think so!

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Excellent explanation!! Thank you Leila.

[@lydethful]

Very useful, especially the last part. Bracket is super important

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[@mirzab2848]

Love this tutorial. FILTER is an amazing function to use. Thank you Leila 🙏🏾

[@achalrajput4173]

Very well explained 👍. Thank you leila ...Love u ..from India ...🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@rishabhberiwal2970]

Wow. Many thanks Leila. You are a life saver .

[@RoHo-b2z]

Excellent teaching!

[@obaidulbau]

Thank you so much Leila. I always learn something new from your videos. Great things about your videos is you always dive deeper into the function. Since I started using FILTER function it totally changed my efficiency. ❤

[@LeilaGharani]

Happy to hear that!

[@chronis69]

U can use xmatch to create the trues/falses when searching for multiple values in the first column and feed xmatch result to filter.

[@jhamca10]

Well explained Leila. I have seen so many videos on Filter function this one is awsme.

[@michaelgilbert7235]

This is a very clear guidance on very useful Excel functionality. Explaining logical operators is not easy but Leila presents it very well. Thanks.

[@JimFikes]

Thanks for another great tutorial, Leila. You continue to be the greatest.

[@LeilaGharani]

Many thanks for the kind words, Jim!

[@philipperiondel3093]

Thanks a lot Leila, I spent my afternoon trying to figure out how to return non adjacent columns with Filter(), and choosecols() was the answer. Many thanks

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it helped!

[@anillpatel]

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[@LeilaGharani]

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[@LeilaGharani]

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[@Bhavik_Khatri]

Very nice use of ChooseCols function.

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[@alexdixon8077]

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[@rojones]

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[@johnlei9821]

This is exactly what I was trying to do. Thanks!

[@tigersamasama]

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[@christophertauss3640]

Top notch techniques for, essentially, doing multi-criteria lookups with just one formula. I have a table of data where Col A and B define a unique row and I need to find Col C. This becomes: Choosecols(Filter((theTable, theTable[Col A]= X) * (theTable[Col B]= Y), "NF"),3). Maybe this needs to be added to an IFError Function in case there are no matches. In any case, great stuff. Many thanks. I have been a subscriber for quite awhile and really appreciate all the great videos you produce.

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So clear and concise! Love the References to the Iron Lady (played by Gillian Anderson) and Detective Columbo (Peter Falk) - LOL!!!

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[@LeilaGharani]

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Glad we got the timing right 😁

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[@LeilaGharani]

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[@kurtisburtis]

Excellent explanation! Although wordier, I do favor the OR and AND functions … because I’ve worked with them longer. I will definitely give the type coercion a try.

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[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you so much for the kind feedback!

[@rickcheshire3284]

Thank you 🙏. This is pure GOLD.

[@merrillmchenry1450]

Great job on leveraging the new Filter Functions. Besides an innate interest it's a bit entertaining to see how much more you can leverage the functions!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you liked it, Merrill!

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Your explanation is very clear... love it! and thanks for sharing 😊

[@SpokesAndWings]

Holy Sheet! - Super video just like the rest of yours. Have been using "AND" criteria logic frequently since seeing this video and understood "OR" as well. Had a bit of an epiphany today. "AND" and "OR"s can be nested as needed. Today I needed =IF((A1="X")+((A1="Y")*(B1="Z")),TRUE,FALSE). Worked like a charm! I'm sure there is a limit to the amount of nesting you can do, but this is a game changer. Thaks so much for these videos!

[@LeilaGharani]

Yay, that's great to hear! Glad it was helpful.

[@jatin_b]

I found it really informative and it's great to know there's a more efficient way to filter data. I especially appreciated the clear examples you provided. Keep up the good work!

[@pallaviharsha2533]

You are great I learnt not only new formulae and also got to know about true false function how to use where to use * or + the reason behind it.