Simple meaning of Filter is to get only relevant information from the heap of data.
Data and Information
Before moving ahead I just wanted to make you understand the difference between Data and Information. Data is a collection of lots of content in the form of Numbers, characters, images
Need of Filter
Suppose, we have a long
But as an employee or staff member one has to analyse only the data related to his/her Region. In that case one could apply Filter on Region Column to see only particular data.
Applying Data > Filter
Applying Filter on any data table is as simple as just to click on icon as mentioned below:
- Select the Range of data table on which you have to apply the filter. Or simply you can select the first Row in the table.
- Click on the Data in Menu.
- Click on Filter icon.
- Observed that drop-down icon will appear for all the columns in the table.
Now, First row will appear as described below:
Extract information using Filter
Now click on any drop-down icon from the first row. In this
We can see a pop-up box with many options.
- By default, it will contain all the Unique values with Checkboxes from the Region column.
- All the values remain selected.
- Click to uncheck Select All option, it will deselect all the checkboxes.
- Now, click only that checkbox(value) for which you are looking for. In this example, we are using “East” value.
- Click OK button to Apply the Filter.
- Now you will get an updated table which contains records only related to the East Region as mentioned below:
Now you have only relevant Information from the heap of Data.
Applying Multiple Filters
There are certain requirement where we need to refine above information with some specific condition. Suppose, in above example now we need to see only that rows which contains “Pen” in the “Item” column.
To achieve this we have to follow Steps #1 to 5 as mentioned in above section for “Item” column and need to select “Pen” checkbox in the Filter Pop-up box. Now, will get less number of records:
Removing Filter from the Data Table
There are multiple ways to remove the Filter from the column or entire table.
- Click on the filter drop-down on the applied column and click to check “Select All” option then click on OK button to show all the records.
- Secondly, you can click on Clear Filter From “Item” option to remove Filter for this column.
Sometimes, we need to remove the filter from the entire table at once to show all the data. To achieve this we need to again click on Filter icon under Data Menu.
Help & Support
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