excel 2010 working with filters

1. Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office 2010-Illustrated
By Dr. Zahraa Fadhil Muhsin
Uruk University
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2.  Limiting Data That Appears on Your Screen by using
Filter & advance Filter
Objectives
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3. Introduction to Filter
 Excel can hold as much data as you need them
to, but you might not want to work with all the
data in a worksheet at the same time.
 You can limit the data shown on a worksheet by
creating a filter, which is a rule that selects
rows to be shown in a worksheet.

4. Filter
 click the cell in the data you want to filter
 Home tab->Editing group->Sort & Filter->Filter.
 When you do,
 Excel displays a filter arrow at the right edge of
the top cell in each column of the data. The
arrow indicates that the Excel AutoFilter
capability is active.
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5. Important
 When you turn on filtering, Excel
treats the cells in the active cell’s
column as a range.
 You should always have a label at
the top of the column you want to
filter.
 If you don’t, Excel treats the first
value in the list as the label and
doesn’t include it in the list of
values by which you can filter the
data.
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6. How it work
 Clicking the filter arrow displays
a menu of filtering options
and a list of the unique values in
the column.
 Sorting commands,
 Clear Filter command
 Filter by Color command.
 The next command that appears on the list depends on the
type of data in the column.
 For example, if the column contains a set of dates, the command will
be Date Filters.
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7. Advance Filter
 Finding Unique Values Within a Data Set
Summarizing values can provide valuable information
that helps you run your business. It can also be helpful
to know how many different values appear within a
column.
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Range Table
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Range Criteria
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8. Summary
 Limiting Data That Appears on Your Screen by using
Filter & advance Filter
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