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Hi, It's really a good learning! Just need one query resolution, Can we use both include & exclude(Not(is number(value))) criteria. Eagerly Waiting for your response on my query.
THANK YOU! After spending AGES trying to use the built in filters to do what I wanted, my brain finally kicked into gear and thought "didn't Leila do a video on this?". If I had only thought of you first, I would have saved loads of time. Boomer alert -getting old sucks.
Hi Leila, I need some help! I have searched through your videos but cannot find the solution for where there are unique values in each column. ie. Each column contains data for a specific month vertically. The vertical data local to that month contains business names and customer names. I want a function to only limit the results displayed to the chosen month. ie. return specific columns (not rows). Every video I've seen on the filter function as well as index/match functions thus far have only been solutions where each column is a singular type of identifier and the results work for rows. Does a solution exist that can produce columns as a result?
As I understand what you're writing, Row 1 is a Header. Column A is January, Column B is February. etc. ect. Rows 2:nn is data. You want to only display a particular month's data (presumably on another worksheet. Won't choosecols work?.@@G-Man01
@@G-Man01You could combine the Transpose function perhaps in your formula. So before applying the filter, transpose the data, so that the column entries become row entries, and then the Filter function should work as per your requirement.
Your videos have freed upto six hours of work time for me on a daily basis. So now I pretend to be working on those completed tasks during my new found down time. Many thanks for adding hours to my day!
I'm doing some other tutorials where they don't teach by making mistakes. I love how you're teaching by making mistakes! It helps align our thinking and understanding with yours.
This is by far the best excel video ever. Brilliant fucntion and super explained. You can also reorder your coloms in a different order when you as you do as in the example 2;4, you can also 2;4;3 the the coloms will be displayed in that order in the filter function.
I used your Excel videos to give training in my office and it was grand success. Thanks a ton!!❤ Except this particular use case covered in this video...! I also covered a similar case.
Quite a helpful video. The way you construct your videos with explanatory graphics, clear slow audio, overall managed pace & a moderate video length makes for swift learning of MS Excel. Thank you kindly.
Wow... I've seen a bunch of formulas use the multiplication thing {true,false,etc...} before but never understood why. Thank you for that VERY clear, simple explanation! SUBSCRIBED!!!
This is a better way to handle AND or OR functions. I had so many problems in the past with those 2 commands that this seems much easier. Thanks for pointing this out Leila!
Thanks a ton. I never used Filter and Index formula before, but thanks to your tutorial, I am now able to use both to create a Income Statement where for any drop down product, the whole statement changes.
You re soooo good in explaining both the usage of this function AND also the logic (Boolean logic to be precise) behind it. Many, many thanks for this excellent upload.
Wonderfull! I used the Index funcition to select the collumns I wnanted exclude for the result. This command "choose" is much more easier to use. Really excell is turning easy.
Really enjoyed this, I like the fact you stress bracketing, it's so easy to slip up using say sumproduct with multiple and / or criteria, re bring back certain columns, you can also use another filter; filter ( filter range, { 1,0,1,1} ) , where 1 = column to return 0 = ignore. but you can't reorder with this, but
Excellent details and explanations. Had an issue trying to filter some data and never got the exact result needed but this just made my day. Thank you!
Top notch techniques for, essentially, doing multi-criteria lookups with just one formula. I have a table of data where Col A and B define a unique row and I need to find Col C. This becomes: Choosecols(Filter((theTable, theTable[Col A]= X) * (theTable[Col B]= Y), "NF"),3). Maybe this needs to be added to an IFError Function in case there are no matches. In any case, great stuff. Many thanks. I have been a subscriber for quite awhile and really appreciate all the great videos you produce.
Thanks a lot Leila, I spent my afternoon trying to figure out how to return non adjacent columns with Filter(), and choosecols() was the answer. Many thanks
Excellent explanation! Although wordier, I do favor the OR and AND functions … because I’ve worked with them longer. I will definitely give the type coercion a try.
Loads of thanks for this very very valuable insight on the filter function, I was struggling so hard to get the multiple selections work and you just made me understand how filter works. Thanks thanks thanks.......
Thank you so much Leila. I always learn something new from your videos. Great things about your videos is you always dive deeper into the function. Since I started using FILTER function it totally changed my efficiency. ❤
Holy Sheet! - Super video just like the rest of yours. Have been using "AND" criteria logic frequently since seeing this video and understood "OR" as well. Had a bit of an epiphany today. "AND" and "OR"s can be nested as needed. Today I needed =IF((A1="X")+((A1="Y")*(B1="Z")),TRUE,FALSE). Worked like a charm! I'm sure there is a limit to the amount of nesting you can do, but this is a game changer. Thaks so much for these videos!
I love your videos Leila. They're so easy to understand and also the way you speak, you got a cool diction. My native language is spanish but I understand every word you say!
You are just amazing !!! The way you presents and scenarios discussing are not just a mere exhibition of your talents rather an excellent way to making audience enthusiastic and helping them to think independently and develop accordingly...!!! HATS OFF 🤩🤩
Sooo cooool. I tried to apply *, + and - operators also in IF function and it works wonders. I hate AND/OR function, visually it confuses a lots especially in nested IF functions. Thankkks
This tutorial is fantastic for understanding the FILTER function! I've covered similar Excel functions on my channel, and I love seeing how different approaches can solve similar problems. Keep up the great work!
As always, @leilagharani pulls through. I restructured a table I use pulling it apart to simplify data entry. I didn't know how I'd tie them together, but I knew I could count on Ms Gharani on showing me how.
Thank you so much for that Leila. I have been using a double filter function for ages to get only the columns that I want. Very tedious when there are a lot of columns to put all those 0's and 1's. I will be using Choosecolumns from now on
Thank You for this video. You have been very helpful. I have been looking for a filter function for Excel. I'm looking forward to trying this out for myself.
So the need for the capability to do this appeared to me today about 5h ago at work. Just got home and saw you uploaded this 3h ago. Couldnt have timed it better.
An additional challenge to the challenge… How can you make the challenge problem a little more user friendly? For example, instead having a user enter in the filter criteria in a cell or use multiple drop downs, a user could check boxes for whichever departments they wanted to include. This would offer a more dynamic solution that wouldn't require using multiple cells for criteria of the same column. I was working on this problem last week and the solution stumped me for a little while but I eventually figured something out that didn't require macros.
Instead of putting the column number in the choosecolums function, you could do a match lookup, this way you make it dynamic and don't need to remember which columns you chose when you wrote the formula, and the index function could also be used for the same goal, but that would requiere vstack for your lookups
Great info. as always. Thanks for showing an actual "mistake". For me, that hits the part of my brain that really integrates all the elements of the formula and makes me think "aha".
Your videos are AMAZING! I'm finally able to make my Excel sheets work for me and not do my head in. Thank you so much!! Your videos are a game-changer!!
Watching ur video is always a charm!! Got inspired and started my channel on easy excel learnings also but knowledge you have is wonderful and inspiring.
Hammer Video! Genau das habe ich diese Woche gesucht! Ich bin genau auf diese Lösung gekommen. Hier habe ich aber noch eine Lösung gesehen, auf die ich nicht gekommen bin: Choosecols! Super! Danke! 🙏
Great job on leveraging the new Filter Functions. Besides an innate interest it's a bit entertaining to see how much more you can leverage the functions!
Excellent video Leila, another option for multiple criteria could be: (and I learned this from Mike Girvin = @ExcelisFun ) = FILTER( TableDiv, ISNUMBER( XMATCH( G1:G2, TableDiv[Division], 0 ) ) It should work, since there's no link for the file, I can't test it, but it should. Nice intro for CHOOSECOLS function, thank you!
Absolutely love the way you explain it step by step. I do have one question. In your example, if you have lets say 10 departments that you have to choose, is adding them one by one the only option or can I just choose a range of the selected departments. That is my current problem. I did go through your video and simultaneously produce the results, but I had to add each one of the 10 departments in the formula I wanted to choose. I am thinking there is definitely a better way to do that, right? Please let me know. Thank you so very much Leila!
Thanks Leila for posting all these great contents, you always provide super useful tips and love the way you explain!! I tried to go a little bit deeper on this function. Is there a way to Group the results using the Filter function and summarize the totals? I noticed there is a GROUPBY Function, but it is still not released. So, I wonder how to accomplish this in the meantime. Thanks!
Nice one, as usual! But I was wondering why we can't use the AND() or the OR() functions instead of multiplying and adding. I discovered the answer: those functions do no spill. Therefore you can't use them in the FILTER criteria. Fortunately, the arithmetic operators (+, -, * and /) do spill.
Logical functions follow single valued logic however when you are multiplying 2 arrays, that's giving you another Array of True and false for each row, then all those rows that have a TRUE gets filtered out. If you use AND() then your answer will treat entire array as a single input and give FALSE even if a single value does not match which is pretty obvious.
Thank you so much for this! I had to do this for surveys where question and answer were on the same line. By using transpose unique questions, was able to get that lateral and use your method to match the user with the question from the table and copy the whole thing down and done! One thing I would ask, please use proper terminology for signs. ( ) are parenthesis, [ ] are brackets, { } are curly braces or curly brackets. Following your steps was making me cringe whenever you would call a parenthesis a bracket while having brackets inside. Just a personal thing. lol.
In sql this is so much easier. No n|d for so many nested functions for which im not a fan of, id rather use different columns. Very refreshing to see sort and choose cols I didnot know these columns
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Hi,
It's really a good learning!
Just need one query resolution, Can we use both include & exclude(Not(is number(value))) criteria.
Eagerly Waiting for your response on my query.
THANK YOU! After spending AGES trying to use the built in filters to do what I wanted, my brain finally kicked into gear and thought "didn't Leila do a video on this?". If I had only thought of you first, I would have saved loads of time. Boomer alert -getting old sucks.
Hi Leila,
I need some help! I have searched through your videos but cannot find the solution for where there are unique values in each column. ie. Each column contains data for a specific month vertically. The vertical data local to that month contains business names and customer names. I want a function to only limit the results displayed to the chosen month. ie. return specific columns (not rows). Every video I've seen on the filter function as well as index/match functions thus far have only been solutions where each column is a singular type of identifier and the results work for rows. Does a solution exist that can produce columns as a result?
As I understand what you're writing, Row 1 is a Header. Column A is January, Column B is February. etc. ect. Rows 2:nn is data. You want to only display a particular month's data (presumably on another worksheet. Won't choosecols work?.@@G-Man01
@@G-Man01You could combine the Transpose function perhaps in your formula. So before applying the filter, transpose the data, so that the column entries become row entries, and then the Filter function should work as per your requirement.
Your videos have freed upto six hours of work time for me on a daily basis. So now I pretend to be working on those completed tasks during my new found down time. Many thanks for adding hours to my day!
I don't think I've ever seen anyone teach this good.
I'm doing some other tutorials where they don't teach by making mistakes. I love how you're teaching by making mistakes! It helps align our thinking and understanding with yours.
This is by far the best excel video ever. Brilliant fucntion and super explained. You can also reorder your coloms in a different order when you as you do as in the example 2;4, you can also 2;4;3 the the coloms will be displayed in that order in the filter function.
Oh Leila, you don't know how this formula has saved my life. Thanks so much!!!
You're so welcome!
I love how detailed you always are showing different scenarios of data extraction on 1 function. Thank you Leila!
I used your Excel videos to give training in my office and it was grand success. Thanks a ton!!❤
Except this particular use case covered in this video...! I also covered a similar case.
Happy to hear the content is helpful at your work!
Wow, your logical reasoning is amazing. How you retain all this in your head astounds me.
I built a dashboard using all of this in the past week. Choose columns is a nice add! Thanks for all you do.
Your teaching is incomparable. Thank you very much!
You blow my mind and make smile along the video. 😆
Quite a helpful video. The way you construct your videos with explanatory graphics, clear slow audio, overall managed pace & a moderate video length makes for swift learning of MS Excel. Thank you kindly.
Thank you for the kind feedback
Wow... I've seen a bunch of formulas use the multiplication thing {true,false,etc...} before but never understood why. Thank you for that VERY clear, simple explanation! SUBSCRIBED!!!
This is a better way to handle AND or OR functions. I had so many problems in the past with those 2 commands that this seems much easier. Thanks for pointing this out Leila!
Thanks a ton.
I never used Filter and Index formula before, but thanks to your tutorial, I am now able to use both to create a Income Statement where for any drop down product, the whole statement changes.
You re soooo good in explaining both the usage of this function AND also the logic (Boolean logic to be precise) behind it. Many, many thanks for this excellent upload.
Wonderfull! I used the Index funcition to select the collumns I wnanted exclude for the result. This command "choose" is much more easier to use. Really excell is turning easy.
This was a neat, clean, and entirely useful tutorial on a common thing one does in SQL.
You've saved me time with this. Thank you.
I have watched so many videos on building filters, but this is crystal clear, thank you. I finally get it!
Really enjoyed this, I like the fact you stress bracketing, it's so easy to slip up using say sumproduct with multiple and / or criteria, re bring back certain columns, you can also use another filter;
filter ( filter range, { 1,0,1,1} ) , where 1 = column to return 0 = ignore. but you can't reorder with this, but
Excellent details and explanations. Had an issue trying to filter some data and never got the exact result needed but this just made my day. Thank you!
Great reminder tip at the end 08:55. (OR belong together), then (AND).
Top notch techniques for, essentially, doing multi-criteria lookups with just one formula. I have a table of data where Col A and B define a unique row and I need to find Col C. This becomes: Choosecols(Filter((theTable, theTable[Col A]= X) * (theTable[Col B]= Y), "NF"),3). Maybe this needs to be added to an IFError Function in case there are no matches. In any case, great stuff. Many thanks. I have been a subscriber for quite awhile and really appreciate all the great videos you produce.
Hello Leila!
I've tested with three AND criteria and worked!
Same syntax shown. Just added a third.
Thanks again!
Thanks a lot Leila, I spent my afternoon trying to figure out how to return non adjacent columns with Filter(), and choosecols() was the answer. Many thanks
Glad it helped!
Excellent explanation!
Although wordier, I do favor the OR and AND functions … because I’ve worked with them longer. I will definitely give the type coercion a try.
Loads of thanks for this very very valuable insight on the filter function, I was struggling so hard to get the multiple selections work and you just made me understand how filter works. Thanks thanks thanks.......
Thank you so much Leila. I always learn something new from your videos. Great things about your videos is you always dive deeper into the function. Since I started using FILTER function it totally changed my efficiency. ❤
Happy to hear that!
Holy Sheet! - Super video just like the rest of yours. Have been using "AND" criteria logic frequently since seeing this video and understood "OR" as well. Had a bit of an epiphany today. "AND" and "OR"s can be nested as needed. Today I needed =IF((A1="X")+((A1="Y")*(B1="Z")),TRUE,FALSE). Worked like a charm! I'm sure there is a limit to the amount of nesting you can do, but this is a game changer. Thaks so much for these videos!
Yay, that's great to hear! Glad it was helpful.
Hello teacher, I am from India. The way you understand in all your videos is very simple.
Because of you, I got the job of MIS manager of a company. You are very dear, I respect your heart.🙏
Wow, that's great. Congratulations!
I love your videos Leila. They're so easy to understand and also the way you speak, you got a cool diction. My native language is spanish but I understand every word you say!
Glad you like them!
You are just amazing !!! The way you presents and scenarios discussing are not just a mere exhibition of your talents rather an excellent way to making audience enthusiastic and helping them to think independently and develop accordingly...!!! HATS OFF 🤩🤩
Thank you so much for the kind feedback!
Sooo cooool. I tried to apply *, + and - operators also in IF function and it works wonders. I hate AND/OR function, visually it confuses a lots especially in nested IF functions. Thankkks
This tutorial is fantastic for understanding the FILTER function! I've covered similar Excel functions on my channel, and I love seeing how different approaches can solve similar problems. Keep up the great work!
This is sooo helpful... I use the formulas to NO END!! you explain each step so well. TY TY!! I love these instructional videos!
So clear and concise! Love the References to the Iron Lady (played by Gillian Anderson) and Detective Columbo (Peter Falk) - LOL!!!
As always, @leilagharani pulls through. I restructured a table I use pulling it apart to simplify data entry. I didn't know how I'd tie them together, but I knew I could count on Ms Gharani on showing me how.
Glad it was helpful!
Very well explained 👍. Thank you leila ...Love u ..from India ...🇮🇳🇮🇳
Thank You Leila, Your videos has been helping me a lot. God bless you and Thank You for your efforts taken to prepare these videos
Mam you're Excel teaching skill is so cool, I understood everything in this video thanks for taught like this 😊😊.
This is a freaking game changer. 100000/10. You are amazing! Subscribed!
Awesome, welcome aboard!
I have recently started your excel course on udemy. Must say it’s pretty detailed. I am loving it. It’s very resourceful
U can use xmatch to create the trues/falses when searching for multiple values in the first column and feed xmatch result to filter.
Thank you so much for that Leila. I have been using a double filter function for ages to get only the columns that I want. Very tedious when there are a lot of columns to put all those 0's and 1's. I will be using Choosecolumns from now on
This is a very clear guidance on very useful Excel functionality. Explaining logical operators is not easy but Leila presents it very well. Thanks.
Wonderful, concise, and detailed. Exactly what I needed. Thank you! God bless!
Thank You for this video. You have been very helpful. I have been looking for a filter function for Excel. I'm looking forward to trying this out for myself.
So the need for the capability to do this appeared to me today about 5h ago at work. Just got home and saw you uploaded this 3h ago. Couldnt have timed it better.
Glad we got the timing right 😁
I'm improving indeed! I got it right thru your tutorials. Thanks, thanks!
You changed my life; you're the best.
Love this tutorial. FILTER is an amazing function to use. Thank you Leila 🙏🏾
An additional challenge to the challenge… How can you make the challenge problem a little more user friendly? For example, instead having a user enter in the filter criteria in a cell or use multiple drop downs, a user could check boxes for whichever departments they wanted to include. This would offer a more dynamic solution that wouldn't require using multiple cells for criteria of the same column. I was working on this problem last week and the solution stumped me for a little while but I eventually figured something out that didn't require macros.
I have a similar problem
Same problem
Instead of putting the column number in the choosecolums function, you could do a match lookup, this way you make it dynamic and don't need to remember which columns you chose when you wrote the formula, and the index function could also be used for the same goal, but that would requiere vstack for your lookups
wow the multiplication and addition explanation was spot on!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. You are number 1 teacher in Excel. I am very happy with your videos.
Truly amazing Leila, thank you for making dummies smart 🙂
Great info. as always. Thanks for showing an actual "mistake". For me, that hits the part of my brain that really integrates all the elements of the formula and makes me think "aha".
It was very useful and you explain perfectly! Thank you Leila, you're a great teacher 🙏
Your videos are AMAZING! I'm finally able to make my Excel sheets work for me and not do my head in. Thank you so much!! Your videos are a game-changer!!
Glad I could help!
Great presentation on Filters.
You learn so much more than just the Formula with Leila....,
Awesome knowledge you have.. the way you make us understand any formula, is very simple but powerful👍
this formula was my life saver, thank you
Watching ur video is always a charm!! Got inspired and started my channel on easy excel learnings also but knowledge you have is wonderful and inspiring.
Glad I could inspire you :)
Very clear "to the point" explanation, thank you!
Very useful, especially the last part. Bracket is super important
Hammer Video! Genau das habe ich diese Woche gesucht! Ich bin genau auf diese Lösung gekommen. Hier habe ich aber noch eine Lösung gesehen, auf die ich nicht gekommen bin: Choosecols! Super! Danke! 🙏
👍
Wow!! Thanks a lot mam for such a nice way to teach us. You are really a very good instructor. Keep working like this. You are the best.
One who is well versed with SUMPRODUCT, will understand this AND OR concepts quickly. Thanks Leila :)
You are great I learnt not only new formulae and also got to know about true false function how to use where to use * or + the reason behind it.
Thank you a lot Mrs.Leila.
Wow. Many thanks Leila. You are a life saver .
Great job on leveraging the new Filter Functions. Besides an innate interest it's a bit entertaining to see how much more you can leverage the functions!
Glad you liked it, Merrill!
As usual, the Excel advice was top notch but the Columbo clip put it over the top! 🤓
😂
You are an amazing trainer. Thanks a lot Leila.
Glad you think so!
Thanks. Also, Pls share the other activity where and all can use this functions.
Dear madam, I found it every useful.
Thank you a lot.
Leila you're a Star....
Huge thanks from France❤❤
I just love your videos. I know I can find my solutions with your work.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Excellent video Leila, another option for multiple criteria could be: (and I learned this from Mike Girvin = @ExcelisFun )
= FILTER( TableDiv, ISNUMBER( XMATCH( G1:G2, TableDiv[Division], 0 ) )
It should work, since there's no link for the file, I can't test it, but it should.
Nice intro for CHOOSECOLS function, thank you!
Thank you Leila!
Loud and clear tutorial!
Glad you liked it!
Very nice use of ChooseCols function.
Absolutely love the way you explain it step by step. I do have one question. In your example, if you have lets say 10 departments that you have to choose, is adding them one by one the only option or can I just choose a range of the selected departments. That is my current problem. I did go through your video and simultaneously produce the results, but I had to add each one of the 10 departments in the formula I wanted to choose. I am thinking there is definitely a better way to do that, right? Please let me know. Thank you so very much Leila!
Every time I am looking for solutions to my problems, you seem to upload a video for it. Can you read my mind? 😊😊
In addition to this, if you just want to return a certain row, you can then use chooserows. Also try out take and drop.
This video is spot on in what i really needed now! Huge thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent and helpful LOL at Gillian Andersen.
😊
Excellent Presentation
Your videos are so well done and you're an Excel Queen!!
Wow Leila so detailed and explained well. Thank you so much it helped a lot! ❤❤❤
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Leila for posting all these great contents, you always provide super useful tips and love the way you explain!!
I tried to go a little bit deeper on this function.
Is there a way to Group the results using the Filter function and summarize the totals?
I noticed there is a GROUPBY Function, but it is still not released.
So, I wonder how to accomplish this in the meantime.
Thanks!
Well explained Leila. I have seen so many videos on Filter function this one is awsme.
Super helpful @leila! Not the most intuitive, but makes sense now.
Nice one, as usual! But I was wondering why we can't use the AND() or the OR() functions instead of multiplying and adding. I discovered the answer: those functions do no spill. Therefore you can't use them in the FILTER criteria. Fortunately, the arithmetic operators (+, -, * and /) do spill.
Logical functions follow single valued logic however when you are multiplying 2 arrays, that's giving you another Array of True and false for each row, then all those rows that have a TRUE gets filtered out. If you use AND() then your answer will treat entire array as a single input and give FALSE even if a single value does not match which is pretty obvious.
This is exactly what I was trying to do. Thanks!
Very Nice Mam
Amazing Logic of Boolean Algebra
Thank you so much for this! I had to do this for surveys where question and answer were on the same line. By using transpose unique questions, was able to get that lateral and use your method to match the user with the question from the table and copy the whole thing down and done!
One thing I would ask, please use proper terminology for signs. ( ) are parenthesis, [ ] are brackets, { } are curly braces or curly brackets. Following your steps was making me cringe whenever you would call a parenthesis a bracket while having brackets inside. Just a personal thing. lol.
Thanks for another great tutorial, Leila. You continue to be the greatest.
Many thanks for the kind words, Jim!
In sql this is so much easier. No n|d for so many nested functions for which im not a fan of, id rather use different columns. Very refreshing to see sort and choose cols I didnot know these columns
It would have been helpful if you could explain the proper way to select a table, whether to include the headers or not.