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Creating custom filters

Creating custom filters

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Creating custom filters

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- [Voiceover] Excel's filtering capability has a feature called a custom filter, and you might have been using it indirectly. As we look at this worksheet called custom filter, suppose we're focused on column C. We wanna see all the department entries here that contain the word service. Come down to text filters, there's the word contains. Farther down the list, you'll see custom filter, but we're not going there, at least directly. We'll choose contains, contains what? The word service, but where does this take us? Into a dialogue box called custom autofilter. Notice how the word auto suddenly appears. The filter option used to be referred to as autofilter, so they've retained it for the dialogue box, and yet when we saw its name earlier, it said custom filter. Nevertheless, we're here, and what do we type in if we're looking for any department containing service? Simply service, click okay. And there we are, these departments all contain the word service. Now, we could have done…

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