Excel FILTER Function TRICK for Non Adjacent Columns
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Are you up for a really cool trick with Excel's new Filter Function? With a simple trick, you can use it to get multiple match results from Non-Adjacent columns in a Simple & Dynamic way. You can also use this trick to get unique values from non-adjacent columns.
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- Dynamic Data Analysis: Learn to dynamically extract and analyze data from non-adjacent columns using the FILTER function.
- Sorting and Filtering Tricks: Unveil tricks to sort and filter data based on specific criteria, making your analysis more efficient and accurate.
- Handling Unique Values: Explore techniques to extract unique values from different columns for a comprehensive data overview.
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So, let's say we have a dataset with 6 columns but we're only interested in the information in column 2 and 5, i.e. in non-adjacent columns. Plus, we don't want to get "all" value from these columns but instead only records that match a certain criteria. And we want it to be in a dynamic way so whenever we change the criteria, the result updates automatically.
I'll show you an Excel trick that get's this done in record time. The secret is to broadcast array constants in our formula. And not only that: You can also use this to get a UNIQUE list of combinations that are in non-adjacent columns.
As a bonus tip I'll show you how you can SORT the result based on a value that's not in the filtered end result.
Many thanks to my student Adam Payne for sharing this method with me!
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00:00 Multiple Match Results from Non-Adjacent Columns
01:40 Excel FILTER Function
04:00 Filter Out the Columns You Do NOT need
06:09 Get UNIQUE list from Non-Adjacent Columns
09:10 Bonus Trick for Sorting
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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.
Amazing Leila. Never thought of that in a million years.
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.
You have made it super easy. Thumps up for teaching us extraordinary tricks. Thank you
She always make it easy for us to understand. I wish all teachers are like you.
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!
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 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.
Thanks for teaching me on filter function as well as for Non Adjacent columns, this is very helpful for me. Keep it up!
I simply love your teaching method & style, learner lot of things in simplest way.. you rock.. thank you so much
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.
Have a teacher like you,its a big chance.You are amazing .Yours youtube videos give me more than my teachers .THANK YOU ❤
Thank you for sharing and thank your student for thinking outside of the box!
I really need to just come to your videos before I start any task. You always save me so much time!
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!
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 :)
This is what I exactly need right now. Thank you! Subscribed.
I was looking for this solution the other day. Thanks for the TIP!
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.
Amazing trick! This will transform the way I do my reports! Thank you!
You never fail to fascinate us , take care Queen 👸🏼
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Leila!
What a simple solution to a complex problem using only a single formula. Thank you for the tip.
You're welcome, Dennis!
Thank you Leila. Wonderful presentation. Very clear understandable easily every having basic knowledge. Keep it up.
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
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!
As usual another cool trick 😎👆
Thank You Leila
Looking forward to the next session.
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!
That is incredible!!Thank you for sharing. I am in the process of taking your dynamic array course, which I am enjoying very much - a very worthwhile investment. I am well past the Filter section of the course, so I am making a note to myself that this trick exists.
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})
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Thanks Luc!
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.
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!
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 😉
I've been combining it with the indirect formula and making separate formulas for each column that I need. This really helps!
Excellent!
Wow. Thank you. I was wondering if this could be done. This is an elegant solution.
I have become your ardent fan - absolutely brilliant explanation!!! Most importantly the pace that you eloquently navigate thru, thanks a lot!
Awesome, thank you!
Just what the doctor ordered. Thank you!
Can't believe there was this solution, I remember brain storming for half hour and I finally went with the choose function
Great tip, I had been trying to find a way to do this. Thanks.
OMG.....Thank you so very much. You save my day Leila!!!
Thank you Leila. I will try the formulas for 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!
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....
Fabulous tip! This is a great solution to several situations that I solved with far more complex DA formulas. This is sooo much simpler. Thank you!
My pleasure, Jim! Glad it's helpful for you.
Thanks Leila 👍Your trick helped me lots in my desgn calculations.
Oh! I really needed that trick, thanks a lot Leila
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!
HI Leila, absolutely loving your courses and tutorials...thank you. Can UNIQUE and FILTER be used in a table by any chance? I get a SPILL# error. Also, can you use SUM function with UNIQUE and FILTER to aggregate column values of all of the lines related to the unique record. Fingers crossed...thanks again.
Fabulous and very simply explained. This is great.
Really love the way you explain... Thak you Leila 🙏
Really awesome. I’ve needed this trick for a while and thought it not possible. Thanks so much for sharing this! Your videos are always great, but I’m super grateful for this one!
You're very welcome!
Excellent video, explained fantastically!
Love it. I've wanting to know how to use this for a long time. Had to resort to using Xlookup before now for the second column
Thanks Leila, I love your videos. They are easy to follow and this one was very useful on a recent task. Pardon me if this was already covered, but I had an issue when using the double filter technique for non-adjacent columns. I was getting the #VALUE! error when there were no matching rows. I found a solution by replacing the inner “Not Found” parameter with an array of equal size to the original array that I though you could share with others that might be facing the same issue.
=FILTER(FILTER(Table2,Table2[Compare]=$K$7,{"Not Found","",""}),{1,0,1},"")
Awesome info Leila! You rock!
Simple and elegant tip!
Elegant, simple, and effective... awsome trick :)
You are the best! Helped me a lot. Thanks.
Thank you, Leila! Was racking my brain on how to solve this till I luckily found your video. :D Greetings from Panamá.
What an amazing tutorial, you explain so well and step by step, thank you very much Leila! The subtitles are so useful to fully understand, as English is not my native language. Thanks a lot for all your effort :)
You're very welcome, Juan 😊
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
This was awesome, and such a simple and elegant solution. Thank you for another great lesson.
Found this tutorial, was exactly what i was looking for. Was lost now found. Thank you so much.
Glad it helped!
You had always provided great tips, please make a video on making a summary sheets for civil engineers.
Thanks in advance
AMAZING. THANK YOU!
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!
That is a fabulous little trick, and I'm already putting it to work. Thank you!
Wonderful!
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!
Absolutely awesome each time... Everytime..
Very helpful tricks! Thank you!
AWESOME! as always.
Thank you for this knowledge.🎓
Mind blown! I've immediately used it!
Happy to help!
Bless you...this is such a great breakthrough in my line of work.
Wonderful!
Awesome! Helped me a lot here at work.
Definitely gonna try this. Thanks a lot
Thanks SOLVED my problem!!!
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!
This is so powerful. Thank you for sharing and explaining it so clearly. Cheers
You are so welcome.
You are awesome, I got stuck to add two columns in filter function…thank you very much
WOW! Amazing - thank you Leila.
Fantastic tricks and explained very easily to follow
Happy New Year Lelia!!! Your're fantastic!!! Thanks!!!
This is a great video - love the tip and the way you've broken down the elements! I've been having a play around with the new functions myself and love the useful functionality they bring! :)
Awesome! Thank you!
That was amazing and super clear, thank you! Are you able to use the filter function to add a non-adjacent column to the same column? For example; I have a guest, their plus one and the room they will be located in on separate rows (along with additional info). I'm able to use your shown function to omit the data I want, but I am unable to put their names beneath each other. A pivot table doesn't seem to help either. What do you suggest? I hope I've made myself clear, and it's not too daft a question!
Thanks a lot leila one more skill you taught me Very well I love it.
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!
This video has made my life easier
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you for teaching.
You're very welcome!
Very impressive! Thanks for sharing these awesome new functions!
My pleasure Joe!
Greetings from🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
. Your channel is wonderful in explaining Excel. I wish you more excellence
Thanks a lot!
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!
It's simple & classic , thanks
this trick is AMAZING!
Great video. Very clever use of the double FILTER!
Thanks Joe for bringing these functions to us :)
You are just fabulous. Thanks for sharing such valuable knowledge in such a simple way. Amazing
My pleasure 😊
I can't thank you enough for this video. Thank you so much and keep up the good work
You're very welcome!
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!
That's Amazing Liela ... i used to go around this problem for months ....now you solve it ...Many Thanks
Happy to help!
You are my new most favorite person!