Thanks, Leila, for yet another very helpful video. Just for those who live in a country like me, where you have to use other separators: to make this trick work, instead of the "," you'll have to use the "\". The first formula then looks like this: =SORT(FILTER(FILTER(TSal[[Name]:[Position]];TSal[Salary]>J2);{1\0\0\1});2) And then it works miracles. Had been looking for this trick for so long, glad I know it now!
Not typically one for commenting youtube videos, but I've been looking for this for a couple of hours now and it worked perfectly. Thank you Roger! And big ups to Leila as always. Confirming forward slash separators work instead of comma for Norwegian excel users.
I googled and could not find anything on how to do what described in my comment below - but then I was messing with the FILTER function and realized I could put the HSTACK function inside the first parameter of the FILTER function and that gives me exactly what I need. i.e. to select the specific columns by column name in a FILTER function in any order without choosing all of them, etc. and without relying on the column order in the source table. It works great! Thought it might be worth a video....
I want to express how much I love you Leila, I started to need to learn excel about 2 years ago, and whenever I am stuck I searched up it is always your videos that knows what I am looking for, thank you!
I love Leila and everything she does. Her videos are so clear, step-by-step and covers every different "what if?". When it comes to Excel, her channel is always the first place I look.
I really think you are a genius Leila. And the opportunity to download your file is great. It allows to understand bugs between English version of Excel et French one for example. In that case {1,0,0,1} becomes {1.0.0.1} in the French version. Once again, I, like millions of people, really appreciate what you do. Thanks !
Waou ! I love the simplicity of the filter trick. Thank you, Leila, for sharing this. It is a good alternative to CHOOSECOLS function for filtering the output.
What a great solution! I tweaked the formula to replace the implicit constant array with a simple if() statement so the user can flag with a "y" (yes) above each column that they want to keep: =FILTER(FILTER(Tsal[[Name]:[Position]],Tsal[Salary]>J2),IF(B1:E1="y",1,0)). This way non-power users can dynamically choose the columns in their report. Thanks again for the simple solution to this issue - I looked everywhere for one!
excellent, thank you. Just a note for those who will use "European configuration"The formula is becoming : "=FILTER(SORT(FILTER(TSal[[Name]:[Salary]];TSal[Salary]>J2);5;-1);{1\0\0\1\0}) "
That was awesome! For anyone getting a #VALUE! error - 1. Check that you're using Excel 2021 or 365 2. Make sure that the array constant of boolean values you use for the include argument has as many values as columns present in the array argument! So if I'm filtering an array from Department to Salary, the curly bracket array constant must have five values (Department, Name, Start Date, Birth Date, Position).
Our IT department finally updated our 365 add-ons. Sad to say i work for a Tech company, but been waiting to use FILTER function. This video helped me trickle down to the columns I needed which is about 5 from about 30 columns. Thank you!
I had been breaking my head for the last few days on this exact problem. Your solution is brilliant. Makes the filter function so much more useful. Thank you so much Leila
This is my favourite Excel function so far. I use it every day. The only thing that I hate about it, is that I had to redo all my sheets ;) I love that you can use as many 'include' arguments as you want, like an 'IF' function. Just put all 'include' arguments and '*' between them. Genius! - Leila, great work! Please keep it up.
in my Excel this is not working. The formular should be like this: FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2},TSal[Name];TSal[Position]),TSal[Salary]>J2) In addition I noticed that in build 2108 14326.20784 in the German version WAHL({1.2}...) the choose part must be spearate by "." to achieve the same. In the beta release channel it changed to "\" for the same result. Apparently Choose acts differently in country versions as well as in build version.
Leila, she's the better in this land, this is my opinion. She opened my brain, and my life changed; she's a good professional. Do not forget her team, excellent as well.
The second FILTER trick is cool, but I think some people are struggling to understand how it actually works, because filtering is typically only applied to rows. However, the FILTER function is capable of filtering data both vertically and horizontally, which is the case in this example. To better illustrate how a horizontal filter works on columns, write some OR criteria for the header row like this: =FILTER(TSal,(TSal[#Headers]=I4)+(TSal[#Headers]=J4)) So, to achieve the same results as demonstrated in this video, the final nested formula would be: =FILTER(FILTER(TSal ,TSal[Salary]>J2), (TSal[#Headers]=I4)+(TSal[#Headers]=J4)) Sure, the array constant method is shorter in this example, but the horizontal criteria method has other advantages: 1) it will work regardless of the column delimiter used in your region 2) it will continue to work if new columns are added/inserted 3) it’s easier to manage with larger tables (20+ columns) Cheers!
Dear Leila, I'm not sure I'm gonna use this tips (I'm a very basic excel user), but I just can't stop watching your videos. You are great!!! Love how you explain things!
It's nice and easy step to filter the Non-adjacent columns. Before watching this video, I had been using the HSTACK function to create an array from Non-adjacent columns.
Different ways of doing the same thing; for example, she also showed us howt to do the CHOOSECOLS, to select only the column you want; I think CHOOSECOLS is better.
Boom, solved the annoying problem of having to hide columns! Thanks Leila! I ran into another annoying result where the filter function returns zeros for blank cells in the source data. I found an elegant solution on Mr. Excel that may help others...made sense to me as I just watched Leila's video on the LET function ;) ... to remove zeros in the array returned by filter try a version of the following example: =LET(f,FILTER($A$1:$D$21,$B$1:$B$21="your_filter_criteria"),IF(f=0,"",f))
Really excellent. Again a more than useful video. Thank you Just to help : for French version of Excel, we have to write {1.0.0.1} instead of {1;0;0;1}
Leila Gharani thank you, I have one more query about =Filter formula is possible to do Based on Mutiple conditions I mean by list of drop down shouldn't in information. I hope you are going to do one video about this
I'm late to this video. I needed to build unique lists from large data sets for sorting and SUMPRODUCT and SUMIFS analyses. This worked like a charm. Thank you!
Really love the way you put up examples and explain them so easily. Thank you leila, this is the first time ever i am fan of someone who has been training online
i was using the filter function... but didn't realize it was array formula and hence could filter multiple columns and in this way!! Thank You Leila. and as usual... i love the way you say "Eeks" for X :D
This video is so awesome! I have been looking for a way to extract specific columns from within a filtered data set and now thanks to this video I know how to do that!
Thanks ... I did something like this a month ago but using choose and it was a lot more cumbersome..This is great easy way to do non-adjacent columns. Thanks so much!
Leila, Once again you display a fantastic option to extend the usefulness of Excel. It makes keeping data updated very easy. Thank you. One curiosity I found is, if you drag the formula, like a normal copy, the formula changes to reflect each column in the table. Example - =FILTER(FILTER(Table2,Table2[Subsegment]=D1),{0,1}) turns to =FILTER(FILTER(Table2,Table2[LEGACY]=E1),{0,1}). It is easily solved with a regular copy and paste. Thank you again.
Wow! I have been dabbling with the new functions for awhile now. This video is packed with great content. Thanks Leila and Adam for sharing your knowledge.
I would use =SORT(FILTER(CHOOSE({1\2};TSal[Name];TSal[Position]);TSal[Salary]>J2)) as this gives more visibility in the formula which columns are chosen. But Your trick has the advantage that it is easier to change between columns when you need to. I changed the {1,0,0,1} to a range and could then choose which columns i wanted to see. Very useful trick
I just tried the following formula CHOOSE(+TRANSPOSE(SORTBY(FILTER(T6:T10;S6:S10>0);FILTER(S6:S10;S6:S10>0)));TSal[Name];TSal[Start Date];TSal[Birth Date];TSal[Position];TSal[Salary]) where I put in r6 to r10 the names of the columns and in 26 to s10 the columns i wanted with 0 to 5 to indicate where i wanted them(0 not shown). as help-column in t6 to t10 (1,2,3,4,5) and now I can choose which columns i want in which order. Adding a filter is easy at that point.. and with a formula for the headers +TRANSPOSE(SORTBY(FILTER(R6:R10;S6:S10>0);FILTER(S6:S10;S6:S10>0))) it's a complete table. I like playing with your examples :-)
Hi Leila.. great trick.. FILTER FILTER with a list of array constants to extract the desired columns.. nice! This solution works great if your data table is static in term of columns. But, if you insert columns in the data table in the future, the array constants within the curly brackets cannot be made to be dynamic and so the formulas would then break until or unless modified. To avoid this problem and maintain maximum flexibility for future design changes, I like to use CHOOSE to assemble the desired non-contiguous columns, as follows: Your example cell I5: =SORT(FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2},TSal2[Name],TSal2[Position]),TSal2[Salary]>J2),2) Your example cell O5: =SORT(UNIQUE(CHOOSE({1,2},TSal2[Department],TSal2[Position]))) Your example cell I13: =CHOOSE({1,2},INDEX(SORT(FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2,3},TSal2[Name],TSal2[Position],TSal2[Salary]),TSal2[Salary]>J2),3,-1),,1),INDEX(SORT(FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2,3},TSal2[Name],TSal2[Position],TSal2[Salary]),TSal2[Salary]>J2),3,-1),,2)) Granted, the formula in cell I13 may be a bit more complex than FILTER FILTER, instead using CHOOSE to assemble the 3 columns to sort and then INDEX to extract the 2 columns to present, but I always thank myself for building in the added flexibility for future design changes. My formulas above will all withstand column insertions in the data table without the need of modification. The FILTER FILTER with {} list formulas would require rebuilding. Again.. not better or worse.. just different potential, depending on whether or not there is a chance the underlying data table might change in the future. A good parallel is VLOOKUP vs. either XLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH. VLOOKUP is less flexible to future changes, but perfectly functional if you know the data table design will remain static. As always, thanks for the video and the inspiration to create and share. Always good learning and fun at your channel :)) Thumbs up!!
Thanks Wayne for sharing. Yes that’s correct. Choose function is great - it’s the one I teach in the DA course for these cases. The good thing about choose aside from being flexible with new columns is that you can get columns in the opposite order as well. Another alternative is to use Index and sequence. Many thanks for your feedback 😊
@@LeilaGharani Thanks Leila.. I intended to mention that CHOOSE also gives flexibility of column order.. glad we are on the same page. I really appreciate all your videos and courses. Though my work and schedule get in the way of bearing down like a full time student, I consume new content every day and it adds up over time. Keep up the great work :)) Cheers!!
Hi! Leila, you doing very great and I am very thankful for what you are doing. I am very helpful with your videos. Now I am requesting you to help me on that my data has multiple line of a product with different quantity for a day. How I use filter function with some other formula to get filter data with sum of data. It's very challenging to me. Please help.
@leila I'm happy you liked that trick! But you took it and taught me new things you could do with it that I hadn't considered. When I saw the choose function method you teach for this type of problem I was sure that was the better way but your Bonus Tip example shows why we can't rely on just one formula. Both formulas have their place.
Thanks a lot for the mask {1;0;1;1;...} tip! Adapted it to "Chose arbitrary columns with arbitrary order, by their names". More readable. I avoid 'abstract' numerical masks with tables, so there is an example with named column mask, and you set cols order, too :) Example - I needed to select ordered unique records with my own column order and selection, after filtering them : =SORT(UNIQUE(""&CHOOSECOLS( FILTER( myTab; (myTab[myColX]=myTab[myColY]+myTab[myColZ])*(myColA=0) ); MATCH({"myColX"; "myColZ"; "myColY"; "myColA"}; myTab[#Headers]; 0));FALSE;FALSE) ;4)
Grab the file I used in the video from here 👉 pages.xelplus.com/filter-trick-file
I tried Ctrl + T and nothing
happened. You already have
the table set.
I already have the file, thank you.
Thanks, Leila, for yet another very helpful video. Just for those who live in a country like me, where you have to use other separators: to make this trick work, instead of the "," you'll have to use the "\". The first formula then looks like this: =SORT(FILTER(FILTER(TSal[[Name]:[Position]];TSal[Salary]>J2);{1\0\0\1});2)
And then it works miracles.
Had been looking for this trick for so long, glad I know it now!
Thanks for sharing, Roger!
Thanks, Roger! Had the same issue.
Thanks Roger!
Thanks a lot Roger. I was trying everything as a separator and none worked until seeing yours! Portuguese excel.
Not typically one for commenting youtube videos, but I've been looking for this for a couple of hours now and it worked perfectly. Thank you Roger! And big ups to Leila as always.
Confirming forward slash separators work instead of comma for Norwegian excel users.
I googled and could not find anything on how to do what described in my comment below - but then I was messing with the FILTER function and realized I could put the HSTACK function inside the first parameter of the FILTER function and that gives me exactly what I need. i.e. to select the specific columns by column name in a FILTER function in any order without choosing all of them, etc. and without relying on the column order in the source table. It works great! Thought it might be worth a video....
I want to express how much I love you Leila, I started to need to learn excel about 2 years ago, and whenever I am stuck I searched up it is always your videos that knows what I am looking for, thank you!
You're so welcome!
I love Leila and everything she does. Her videos are so clear, step-by-step and covers every different "what if?". When it comes to Excel, her channel is always the first place I look.
I really think you are a genius Leila. And the opportunity to download your file is great. It allows to understand bugs between English version of Excel et French one for example. In that case {1,0,0,1} becomes {1.0.0.1} in the French version. Once again, I, like millions of people, really appreciate what you do. Thanks !
Really thanks for this comments i was trying to figure out where i am making mistake thanks bro :D
Waou ! I love the simplicity of the filter trick. Thank you, Leila, for sharing this. It is a good alternative to CHOOSECOLS function for filtering the output.
You the real MVP!
What a great solution! I tweaked the formula to replace the implicit constant array with a simple if() statement so the user can flag with a "y" (yes) above each column that they want to keep: =FILTER(FILTER(Tsal[[Name]:[Position]],Tsal[Salary]>J2),IF(B1:E1="y",1,0)). This way non-power users can dynamically choose the columns in their report. Thanks again for the simple solution to this issue - I looked everywhere for one!
Thanks for sharing your version, Jeff!
thank you very much
Till now I use compicated formulas or pivot to do all of it ,
now the life changed with this amazing function
Many thanks Lili
Great to hear!
Leila, I have been a subscriber for a long time now and I am still amazed on how much I can learn from you!!!
I'm so glad! Thank you for your support, Mark.
excellent, thank you. Just a note for those who will use "European configuration"The formula is becoming : "=FILTER(SORT(FILTER(TSal[[Name]:[Salary]];TSal[Salary]>J2);5;-1);{1\0\0\1\0})
"
Thanks Luc!
What a simple solution to a complex problem using only a single formula. Thank you for the tip.
You're welcome, Dennis!
That was awesome! For anyone getting a #VALUE! error - 1. Check that you're using Excel 2021 or 365 2. Make sure that the array constant of boolean values you use for the include argument has as many values as columns present in the array argument! So if I'm filtering an array from Department to Salary, the curly bracket array constant must have five values (Department, Name, Start Date, Birth Date, Position).
THANKS SAM! The second part of your comments (having as many values as in the array) saved me TONS of debugging...GOOD YOU
@@SteveSwanson999 Glad I could help! I wasted a good chunk of time trying to figure it out myself 😂
Watched the video a half hour ago, and already used it to save about 15 minutes of manual effort. Great function and GREAT instruction on using it.
Great to hear it was helpful, Andy!
Our IT department finally updated our 365 add-ons. Sad to say i work for a Tech company, but been waiting to use FILTER function. This video helped me trickle down to the columns I needed which is about 5 from about 30 columns. Thank you!
Great! Glad it was helpful.
I had been breaking my head for the last few days on this exact problem. Your solution is brilliant. Makes the filter function so much more useful. Thank you so much Leila
This is my favourite Excel function so far. I use it every day. The only thing that I hate about it, is that I had to redo all my sheets ;) I love that you can use as many 'include' arguments as you want, like an 'IF' function. Just put all 'include' arguments and '*' between them. Genius! - Leila, great work! Please keep it up.
Amazing Leila. Never thought of that in a million years.
Awesome function, awesome video :) Also it will well pair up with choose function. FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2},TSal[[Name],[Position]]),TSal[Salary]>J2)
very nice
in my Excel this is not working. The formular should be like this: FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2},TSal[Name];TSal[Position]),TSal[Salary]>J2) In addition I noticed that in build 2108 14326.20784 in the German version WAHL({1.2}...) the choose part must be spearate by "." to achieve the same. In the beta release channel it changed to "\" for the same result. Apparently Choose acts differently in country versions as well as in build version.
Leila, she's the better in this land, this is my opinion. She opened my brain, and my life changed; she's a good professional. Do not forget her team, excellent as well.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
3 years later and here I am using this solution. Thanks for all these helpful videos over the years.
It's our pleasure. Thanks for your ongoing support!
I really need to just come to your videos before I start any task. You always save me so much time!
The second FILTER trick is cool, but I think some people are struggling to understand how it actually works, because filtering is typically only applied to rows. However, the FILTER function is capable of filtering data both vertically and horizontally, which is the case in this example.
To better illustrate how a horizontal filter works on columns, write some OR criteria for the header row like this:
=FILTER(TSal,(TSal[#Headers]=I4)+(TSal[#Headers]=J4))
So, to achieve the same results as demonstrated in this video, the final nested formula would be:
=FILTER(FILTER(TSal ,TSal[Salary]>J2), (TSal[#Headers]=I4)+(TSal[#Headers]=J4))
Sure, the array constant method is shorter in this example, but the horizontal criteria method has other advantages:
1) it will work regardless of the column delimiter used in your region
2) it will continue to work if new columns are added/inserted
3) it’s easier to manage with larger tables (20+ columns)
Cheers!
That's definitely a more sound solution, @davidabuang
The video is 100% great anyways!
Can't believe there was this solution, I remember brain storming for half hour and I finally went with the choose function
Thank you Leila, I think you were the first who makes a video about his. Finally a good alternative to advanced filter...
Without Adam's idea I wouldn't have come up with it either. It's a great alternative!
Dear Leila, I'm not sure I'm gonna use this tips (I'm a very basic excel user), but I just can't stop watching your videos. You are great!!! Love how you explain things!
Hello, trust me, you keep watching, you won't be a basic user for long 😉
You have made it super easy. Thumps up for teaching us extraordinary tricks. Thank you
You're a great teacher and I'm glad to find your channel. You teach in a brilliant way and I completely understand. Thank you very much 🙏🏼
Thank you very much!
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. Your channel is wonderful in explaining Excel. I wish you more excellence
Thanks a lot!
Just what the doctor ordered. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing and thank your student for thinking outside of the box!
I have been working on a solution for this for who knows how long and you solved it in minutes! Thanks you so so so very much Leila!
It's nice and easy step to filter the Non-adjacent columns. Before watching this video, I had been using the HSTACK function to create an array from Non-adjacent columns.
Have a teacher like you,its a big chance.You are amazing .Yours youtube videos give me more than my teachers .THANK YOU ❤
I have become your ardent fan - absolutely brilliant explanation!!! Most importantly the pace that you eloquently navigate thru, thanks a lot!
Awesome, thank you!
Great video. Very clever use of the double FILTER!
Thanks Joe for bringing these functions to us :)
Different ways of doing the same thing; for example, she also showed us howt to do the CHOOSECOLS, to select only the column you want; I think CHOOSECOLS is better.
Boom, solved the annoying problem of having to hide columns! Thanks Leila! I ran into another annoying result where the filter function returns zeros for blank cells in the source data. I found an elegant solution on Mr. Excel that may help others...made sense to me as I just watched Leila's video on the LET function ;) ... to remove zeros in the array returned by filter try a version of the following example: =LET(f,FILTER($A$1:$D$21,$B$1:$B$21="your_filter_criteria"),IF(f=0,"",f))
Thanks for sharing your solution!
Or just go into file-options-advanced and deselect the option that says “show 0 for blank cells. “
Mind blown! I've immediately used it!
Happy to help!
Thanks!
Thank you, Kevin!
Really excellent. Again a more than useful video. Thank you
Just to help : for French version of Excel, we have to write {1.0.0.1} instead of {1;0;0;1}
MERCI!!!!! Une heure que je me debat avec excel sans rien n'y comprendre! Merci!
For German version dots are also the delimeter
Found this tutorial, was exactly what i was looking for. Was lost now found. Thank you so much.
Glad it helped!
Thanks
That's Amazing Liela ... i used to go around this problem for months ....now you solve it ...Many Thanks
Happy to help!
So nice of you to teach such a great IDEA. Thanks
You are so welcome!
Wow. Thank you. I was wondering if this could be done. This is an elegant solution.
You are just fabulous. Thanks for sharing such valuable knowledge in such a simple way. Amazing
My pleasure 😊
This is so powerful. Thank you for sharing and explaining it so clearly. Cheers
You are so welcome.
You have really upped the quality of the videoes! Love the editing, the small details, music, transition etc.
Awesome! :-)
Agreed
Thanks a ton! I'm glad to hear that 😊
Leila Gharani thank you,
I have one more query about =Filter formula is possible to do Based on Mutiple conditions I mean by list of drop down shouldn't in information.
I hope you are going to do one video about this
This is what I exactly need right now. Thank you! Subscribed.
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you for teaching.
You're very welcome!
I'm late to this video. I needed to build unique lists from large data sets for sorting and SUMPRODUCT and SUMIFS analyses. This worked like a charm. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Leila!
Really love the way you explain... Thak you Leila 🙏
Awesome! Helped me a lot here at work.
Thank you, Leila. It is always such a clear explanation.
Glad you think so!
Thanks Leila for sharing this. This will be surely useful for 365 users.
Thanks, I hope so!
Thank you, Leila! Was racking my brain on how to solve this till I luckily found your video. :D Greetings from Panamá.
Wow, superb. Thank you
Fabulous and very simply explained. This is great.
I've been combining it with the indirect formula and making separate formulas for each column that I need. This really helps!
Excellent!
Really love the way you put up examples and explain them so easily.
Thank you leila, this is the first time ever i am fan of someone who has been training online
Glad you like them! Thank you so much for your support.
Nowadays I just use the CHOOSECOLS function instead, but both solutions are fine. Great video!
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You are my new most favorite person!
Definitely gonna try this. Thanks a lot
Thanks Leila 👍Your trick helped me lots in my desgn calculations.
I can't thank you enough for this video. Thank you so much and keep up the good work
You're very welcome!
She always make it easy for us to understand. I wish all teachers are like you.
Great laila ,love u , u give me more then i imagine.
i identified my problem with my excel data and solution is just from you.
OMG.....Thank you so very much. You save my day Leila!!!
i was using the filter function... but didn't realize it was array formula and hence could filter multiple columns and in this way!! Thank You Leila. and as usual... i love the way you say "Eeks" for X :D
FILTER really is an amazing function :)
This video is so awesome!
I have been looking for a way to extract specific columns from within a filtered data set and now thanks to this video I know how to do that!
Glad it helped, Eric!
That is a fabulous little trick, and I'm already putting it to work. Thank you!
Wonderful!
Very helpful tricks! Thank you!
You are awesome, I got stuck to add two columns in filter function…thank you very much
Thank you Laila... very useful video
Thanks ... I did something like this a month ago but using choose and it was a lot more cumbersome..This is great easy way to do non-adjacent columns. Thanks so much!
You are the best! Helped me a lot. Thanks.
Fantastic tricks and explained very easily to follow
Thanks SOLVED my problem!!!
Thanks for teaching me on filter function as well as for Non Adjacent columns, this is very helpful for me. Keep it up!
Leila, Once again you display a fantastic option to extend the usefulness of Excel. It makes keeping data updated very easy. Thank you. One curiosity I found is, if you drag the formula, like a normal copy, the formula changes to reflect each column in the table. Example - =FILTER(FILTER(Table2,Table2[Subsegment]=D1),{0,1}) turns to =FILTER(FILTER(Table2,Table2[LEGACY]=E1),{0,1}). It is easily solved with a regular copy and paste. Thank you again.
This video has made my life easier
This was awesome, and such a simple and elegant solution. Thank you for another great lesson.
Wow! I have been dabbling with the new functions for awhile now. This video is packed with great content. Thanks Leila and Adam for sharing your knowledge.
Our pleasure, Matt :)
You are the best Leila.
this trick is AMAZING!
Great Leila .. Literally you are dynamic like the formulas ..Super fast solution for dashboard ..A Big Thumps Up ..Thanks for sharing
You are very welcome 😊
I would use =SORT(FILTER(CHOOSE({1\2};TSal[Name];TSal[Position]);TSal[Salary]>J2)) as this gives more visibility in the formula which columns are chosen. But Your trick has the advantage that it is easier to change between columns when you need to. I changed the {1,0,0,1} to a range and could then choose which columns i wanted to see. Very useful trick
I just tried the following formula CHOOSE(+TRANSPOSE(SORTBY(FILTER(T6:T10;S6:S10>0);FILTER(S6:S10;S6:S10>0)));TSal[Name];TSal[Start Date];TSal[Birth Date];TSal[Position];TSal[Salary]) where I put in r6 to r10 the names of the columns and in 26 to s10 the columns i wanted with 0 to 5 to indicate where i wanted them(0 not shown). as help-column in t6 to t10 (1,2,3,4,5) and now I can choose which columns i want in which order. Adding a filter is easy at that point.. and with a formula for the headers +TRANSPOSE(SORTBY(FILTER(R6:R10;S6:S10>0);FILTER(S6:S10;S6:S10>0))) it's a complete table. I like playing with your examples :-)
You never fail to fascinate us , take care Queen 👸🏼
Wow! Great tip Leila! Another day I had really bad times trying something that would give me this same result. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful, Angelo!
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks! I've been looking for this for a loooong time :)))
Hi Leila.. great trick.. FILTER FILTER with a list of array constants to extract the desired columns.. nice! This solution works great if your data table is static in term of columns. But, if you insert columns in the data table in the future, the array constants within the curly brackets cannot be made to be dynamic and so the formulas would then break until or unless modified. To avoid this problem and maintain maximum flexibility for future design changes, I like to use CHOOSE to assemble the desired non-contiguous columns, as follows:
Your example cell I5: =SORT(FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2},TSal2[Name],TSal2[Position]),TSal2[Salary]>J2),2)
Your example cell O5: =SORT(UNIQUE(CHOOSE({1,2},TSal2[Department],TSal2[Position])))
Your example cell I13: =CHOOSE({1,2},INDEX(SORT(FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2,3},TSal2[Name],TSal2[Position],TSal2[Salary]),TSal2[Salary]>J2),3,-1),,1),INDEX(SORT(FILTER(CHOOSE({1,2,3},TSal2[Name],TSal2[Position],TSal2[Salary]),TSal2[Salary]>J2),3,-1),,2))
Granted, the formula in cell I13 may be a bit more complex than FILTER FILTER, instead using CHOOSE to assemble the 3 columns to sort and then INDEX to extract the 2 columns to present, but I always thank myself for building in the added flexibility for future design changes. My formulas above will all withstand column insertions in the data table without the need of modification. The FILTER FILTER with {} list formulas would require rebuilding. Again.. not better or worse.. just different potential, depending on whether or not there is a chance the underlying data table might change in the future. A good parallel is VLOOKUP vs. either XLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH. VLOOKUP is less flexible to future changes, but perfectly functional if you know the data table design will remain static. As always, thanks for the video and the inspiration to create and share. Always good learning and fun at your channel :)) Thumbs up!!
Thanks Wayne for sharing. Yes that’s correct. Choose function is great - it’s the one I teach in the DA course for these cases. The good thing about choose aside from being flexible with new columns is that you can get columns in the opposite order as well. Another alternative is to use Index and sequence. Many thanks for your feedback 😊
@@LeilaGharani Thanks Leila.. I intended to mention that CHOOSE also gives flexibility of column order.. glad we are on the same page. I really appreciate all your videos and courses. Though my work and schedule get in the way of bearing down like a full time student, I consume new content every day and it adds up over time. Keep up the great work :)) Cheers!!
Hi! Leila, you doing very great and I am very thankful for what you are doing. I am very helpful with your videos. Now I am requesting you to help me on that my data has multiple line of a product with different quantity for a day. How I use filter function with some other formula to get filter data with sum of data. It's very challenging to me. Please help.
You are a genius 👍🏻
Owesome Leila. It just keeps inspiring!😊
@leila I'm happy you liked that trick!
But you took it and taught me new things you could do with it that I hadn't considered. When I saw the choose function method you teach for this type of problem I was sure that was the better way but your Bonus Tip example shows why we can't rely on just one formula. Both formulas have their place.
Thanks Adam for sharing this great idea! I'm sure it will be helpful for many of us.
I simply love your teaching method & style, learner lot of things in simplest way.. you rock.. thank you so much
AWESOME! as always.
Thank you for this knowledge.🎓
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Thanks a lot for the mask {1;0;1;1;...} tip! Adapted it to "Chose arbitrary columns with arbitrary order, by their names". More readable.
I avoid 'abstract' numerical masks with tables, so there is an example with named column mask, and you set cols order, too :)
Example - I needed to select ordered unique records with my own column order and selection, after filtering them :
=SORT(UNIQUE(""&CHOOSECOLS(
FILTER( myTab; (myTab[myColX]=myTab[myColY]+myTab[myColZ])*(myColA=0) );
MATCH({"myColX"; "myColZ"; "myColY"; "myColA"}; myTab[#Headers]; 0));FALSE;FALSE)
;4)
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