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Advanced filtering not working in Excel 2021
Thanks - none of this works. Data is consistent to use in a filtering formula, but the so-called Advanced Filter does not work.
With assistance from a MS Customer Service Rep, we repeated all the diagnostics and changing things around sufficiently that we were both stumped.
I especially dislike bumping into these kinds of problems.
Back when I was aggressively trying to fix another thing, maybe 10 years ago or so, I paid the very expensive tech support fee - as I know it would be reimbursed if it was a real bug.
Sure enough, I distinctly recall getting the refund.
Wish MS paid a bounty for bugs. I - unfortunately - find a ton of them,
This seems one of them, perhaps.
m_tarler
Demo and video upload below.Good thing the lost hours I invested drove me to find a better approach.
Yet this is still something I want to get to the bottom of.
If, and - when this works - this will be REAL helpful.Thanks all,
DDAh ha! the problem is the headers of your filters must match the header of the column that filter is applied to. In the attached file rename "Filter1" and "Filter2" to BOTH be "Target" and then it should work. At least it did on my computer.
Oops - just ran this on 120K row dataset - and while it did not look like it was working, after leaving the computer and coming back in 10 minutes, it did the job.
Sure took a while - but I'll be using this along with all the other tools I've learned through the years.
Thanks again!