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Use the FILTER dynamic array function - Microsoft Excel Tutorial
From the course: Excel: Managing and Analyzing Data
Use the FILTER dynamic array function
[Instructor] Here is some city data and it is sorted alphabetically by the city name, and now we would like to extract certain records from it. We've been asked to provide a list of these cities that do not have a mayor listed. So I'm going to go down to this cell and use the filter function. Equals, filter, open parenthesis, filter what. We've been asked for this data. The population was not requested. Okay. So, comma, include what? Include where, the mayor column, equals, empty, close parentheses. Enter. Look at that and we can verify Xanthic Lake doesn't have a mayor in cell F16 and Xanthic Lake is listed in our dynamic array result. So look at this another way. Let's make it a little more complex. We want the data that has no mayor listed and a population of less than 100,000. Equals, filter, double click, the array. This time let's grab the entire data set. Comma, include what? Because we want multiple…
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Sort with multiple criteria2m 40s
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Sort by cell color, font color, or cell icon6m 42s
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Sort by custom list1m 36s
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Sort in Power Query3m 1s
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Use Dynamic Arrays: SORT, SORTBY5m 40s
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Use the FILTER dynamic array function4m 20s
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Use text, numeric, and date filters8m 27s
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Filter in Power Query5m 56s
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Filter table data interactively with slicers6m 35s
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