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leisaellemor
Dec 01, 2023Copper Contributor
Custom Number Filtering
I am wanting to create a Custom Number Autofilter which draws the information from a cell. Basically from the image below, I want to filter the column by amounts "less than" the amount shown in the c...
- Dec 01, 2023
leisaellemor To automate this with VBA, open the Visual Basic editor (Alt+F11). In the left-hand pane under VBAProject > Microsoft Excel Objects, double-click the sheet name that contains your data to open the worksheet module. The code will vary slightly, depending on if your data has been formatted as an Excel Table, or if it's just a regular worksheet range.
Version 1: With a Structured Excel Table
Option Explicit Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) 'Stop macro if more than once cell was changed If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub 'Apply filter if the criteria cell was changed Dim rg As Range Set rg = Me.Range("C1") If Not Intersect(Target, rg) Is Nothing Then Me.ListObjects(1).Range.AutoFilter Field:=3, criteria1:="<=" & rg.Value End If End Sub
Version 2: With a Worksheet Range
Option Explicit Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) 'Stop macro if more than once cell was changed If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub 'Apply filter if the criteria cell was changed Dim rg As Range Set rg = Me.Range("C1") If Not Intersect(Target, rg) Is Nothing Then Dim rgData As Range Set rgData = Me.Range("A2").CurrentRegion Set rgData = rgData.Offset(1).Resize(rgData.Rows.Count - 1) rgData.AutoFilter Field:=3, Criteria1:="<=" & rg.Value End If End Sub
Note: since the screenshot of your data does not reveal the worksheet column letters or rows numbers, I made the assumption that the table begins in cell A2, the column to filter is Field:=3 and the criteria to filter by is in cell C1. Please adjust the range references and field number, if necessary.
Also, Range("A2").CurrentRegion was used here to identify the entire data range. This method will only work properly if your data range does not contain any completely blank rows or columns... the CurrentRegion method identifies all adjacent data in the same manner that pressing Ctrl+Shift+8 (*) will highlight all adjacent data to the active cell. If your data contains additional adjacent cells above the header row, you may need to adjust the Offset and Resize numbers accordingly.
Then, just input a new value in the criteria cell to refresh the filter.
leisaellemor
Dec 01, 2023Copper Contributor
mathetes Thankyou. That is part of the problem solved.
However, I don't want the data to be filtered by duplicating into other cells. I am wanting the data to be filtered where it sits originally so that all of the other column data on the same line is still visible. This is the reason I was trying to use the inbuilt filtering as this allows me to keep all of the other column data on the same line.
Any idea if this is possible?
djclements
Dec 01, 2023Bronze Contributor
leisaellemor To automate this with VBA, open the Visual Basic editor (Alt+F11). In the left-hand pane under VBAProject > Microsoft Excel Objects, double-click the sheet name that contains your data to open the worksheet module. The code will vary slightly, depending on if your data has been formatted as an Excel Table, or if it's just a regular worksheet range.
Version 1: With a Structured Excel Table
Option Explicit
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
'Stop macro if more than once cell was changed
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub
'Apply filter if the criteria cell was changed
Dim rg As Range
Set rg = Me.Range("C1")
If Not Intersect(Target, rg) Is Nothing Then
Me.ListObjects(1).Range.AutoFilter Field:=3, criteria1:="<=" & rg.Value
End If
End Sub
Version 2: With a Worksheet Range
Option Explicit
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
'Stop macro if more than once cell was changed
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub
'Apply filter if the criteria cell was changed
Dim rg As Range
Set rg = Me.Range("C1")
If Not Intersect(Target, rg) Is Nothing Then
Dim rgData As Range
Set rgData = Me.Range("A2").CurrentRegion
Set rgData = rgData.Offset(1).Resize(rgData.Rows.Count - 1)
rgData.AutoFilter Field:=3, Criteria1:="<=" & rg.Value
End If
End Sub
Note: since the screenshot of your data does not reveal the worksheet column letters or rows numbers, I made the assumption that the table begins in cell A2, the column to filter is Field:=3 and the criteria to filter by is in cell C1. Please adjust the range references and field number, if necessary.
Also, Range("A2").CurrentRegion was used here to identify the entire data range. This method will only work properly if your data range does not contain any completely blank rows or columns... the CurrentRegion method identifies all adjacent data in the same manner that pressing Ctrl+Shift+8 (*) will highlight all adjacent data to the active cell. If your data contains additional adjacent cells above the header row, you may need to adjust the Offset and Resize numbers accordingly.
Then, just input a new value in the criteria cell to refresh the filter.
- leisaellemorDec 01, 2023Copper ContributorThank you so much. This is just what I needed.