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Filtered data in Excel online are visible for all users
Hi Andrey,
This is not possible, and I don't think it will ever be possible!
Because the idea of collaboration and co-authoring requires synchronizing changes between users who are working on the same Excel workbook.
You cannot prevent other users from seeing your changes in the same workbook you're working on.
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And this is still a problem despite Google doing it so beautifully!
- It is possibile in google docs.
- yeah, new to MS tools after a 5 year hiatus on Google tools. Really miss this private filter!
Haytham AmairahI agree it is for collaboration, but I think you have missed the fact that there are different ways to collaborate. It might make sense for two people to edit the one record/row/column/cell sometimes, but in my experience the majority of Excel files edited by multiple users via SharePoint or o365 are edited in a way where different people edit different rows at the same time. It seems to be more the case that Excel files are created for multiple people to contribute such that it is the sum of edits from all users, not a collection of single edits that have each been agreed on by two or more people. Do you follow? E.g. you add data to rows 1,3,4,6,9, I add data to rows 2,5,7,8,10 etc...but we do not edit the SAME rows or cells...one file, multiple rows/cells, each row/cell edited by ONE person, not multiple people.
Having the ability to only locally filter an individual user's view would most definitely be welcome and useful, and I would bet money on that kind of editing (different people editing different rows/cells rather than collaboratively editing cells together) being what really happens for most of these shared Excel files.Haytham Amairah
In fact, it's possible. Due to the fact that this function has been in Google Sheets since 2017.I'm sure this worked on 'shared' workbooks though? It's only the online version that doesn't seem to be able to do it.
Hi Philip,
This is including Excel for Desktop as well and even Excel for Android and iOS.
Please read this https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Collaborate-on-Excel-workbooks-at-the-same-time-with-co-authoring-7152aa8b-b791-414c-a3bb-3024e46fb104 for more information.
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