Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated July 20, 2024)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, Excel in Microsoft 365, and 2021
If you use the advanced filtering capabilities of Excel, you are not limited to filtering "in place." You can also do the equivalent of a database extraction, which is a two-step process. First, the list is filtered, and then the records that match your criteria are copied to a different area of the worksheet.
To instruct Excel to copy the results of a filtering, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Advanced Filter dialog box.
When you specify a destination for the copy (step 6), you have three options. First, if you specify a single cell as the destination, then Excel copies the results of the filtering, regardless of the number of records extracted. If you are working with a large list and the results of the filtering might be many, many rows, however, you might not want to do this. In this case, make the destination a row selection. Excel will then only copy that many rows. Thus, if the result of the filtering was 47 records, and your destination was a selection of 12 rows, only the first 12 records are copied. The final option is to select a range of cells. This limits the copy to the number of rows and columns specified by the range.
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2024-07-22 10:41:49
Laura Sargent
"Copying the Results of Filtering" this is the first tip ever that I could not follow. It skips too many steps.
2024-07-20 21:30:00
Alex Blakenburg
A couple of other useful features:
• If you prepopulate the column headings in your Copy To range, it will only bring across the nominated columns (names have to match exactly). Very easy way to extract specific columns and re-order columns.
• As part of the copy process it only brings across the values (converts formulas to their values)
• It brings across the source formatting.
• Although when you do it manually it won't let you copy to another sheet (or workbook), it will let you do so if you use VBA.
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