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Filtering Columns for Unique Values
Printing Multiple Worksheets on a Single Page
When are using Excel's AutoFiltering feature, you may want to display information in your list according to a custom set of criteria.
Excel makes this easy to do. All you need to do is the following:
You can use the Custom AutoFilter dialog box to set any combination of criteria that you need. For instance, you can indicate that you want to see any values below, within, or above any given thresholds you desire. The filtering criteria will even work just fine with text values. For instance, you can cause Excel to display only records that are greater than AE. This means that anything beginning with AA through AE won't be displayed in the filtered list.
You should note that Excel also provides wildcard characters you can use to filter text values. These are the same wildcards you can use in specifying file names at the Windows command prompt. For instance, the question mark matches any single character, and the asterisk matches any number of characters. Thus, if you wanted to only display records that have the letter T in the third character position, you would use the equal sign operator (=) and a value of ??T*. This means the first two characters can be anything, the third character must be a T, and the rest can be anything.
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