{"id":74,"date":"2018-12-26T17:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/?p=74"},"modified":"2021-09-29T06:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T06:05:49","slug":"filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/filter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to filter data in MS Excel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Filter is a useful tool in excel to filter and retrieve only required data from a large pool of information. In the below example let us find out how to filter names of students who scored 20 marks in the examination.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Step 1 : In the example below, select full row above the required data to filter<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Step 2 : Go to Editing group in Home tab, Sort &amp; Filter and select Filter<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/filter1.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Step 3 : Now click on filter drop box in examination marks.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/filter2.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Step 4 : Check only 20 as below<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/filter3.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Step 5 : Now the sheet displays only those students who scored 20 marks in the examination<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/filter4.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">External links for learning more about filtering<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-in\/excel-help\/filter-data-in-a-range-or-table-HP010073941.aspx\">MS Office &#8211; Filter data in a range or table &#8211; Filter text, numbers, dates or times, by cell color, font color and more advance features<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/canada\/smallbiz\/products\/howto\/use-excel-filtering-to-find-data-fast.mspx\"> How to Use Excel Filtering to Find Data Fast<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-in\/excel-help\/guidelines-and-examples-for-sorting-and-filtering-data-by-color-HA010212590.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Filtering data by colour<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Search engine keywords for this question<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">Filtering data in Excel 2010<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">How to filter data in Excel 2007<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">Excel bring similar data together<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">How to display values against selected data<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">How to filter by numbers in Excel<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">Remove unnecessary data from a list<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">Exclude unwanted data in Excel<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">Show data against a specific name<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">Collect required data in Excel<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}