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Using the Top Ten (value or percent) option

Using the Top Ten (value or percent) option

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Using the Top Ten (value or percent) option

- [Voiceover] On this worksheet called Top Ten Filter, we've activated the filter, and on numeric fields, you'll see an option called top 10. I'm clicking the arrow for column I, compensation. Number filters, top ten, now, top 10 is a little bit of a misnomer, because top could just as easily be bottom, we can make the choice here, 10 can be any number we want it to be, we can either type in the number here, or use the arrow keys, and although it says items, and often you will use this, we could choose percent. So, in this particular list, it's got a little under 700 rows, if we choose percent, and we get the top 10 percent, we're gonna get about 68, 69, 70 records, something like that, showing. If we choose 10, meaning items, we'll simply get 10 items. For example, right here, remember, this is based on what's in column I, the top 10 items, click OK. There they are, the top 10 compensation amounts. They're not necessarily sorted, but we can do that easily, too, with the dropper, if…

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