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P DS
Copper Contributor
Jul 10, 2017
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Excel filter issues

Hi I have an excel file with dates (month) from 01/07/2016 to 30/05/2017. Excel is only filtering the top 4 months on the list. (everytime I sort the date, either from oldest to newest or vice vers...
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    IngeborgHawighorst
    Jul 10, 2017

    Sergei, the Excel version 1706 has a known problem with filters. It has been reported to the Excel developers. Search filters will not help in this scenario, because Excel does not include some date ranges in the filter in the first place. The search only searches in what the filter already includes. If the filter does not include it, it cannot be discovered by search. 

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IngeborgHawighorst
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Jul 10, 2017

There is a known issue in Excel 1706 with date filters not showing all the dates of the data in the column.

 

Currently, the only workaround is to roll back to Excel 1705, where the problem does not occur. This article explains how to roll back to a previous version. 

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SergeiBaklan
Diamond Contributor
Jul 10, 2017

Another couple workarounds could be

1) Use search filter

 

 

2) Convert data to table and use the slicer, for this particular case it's not too big

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