- Text in numeric or date columns, except for the header label, limits Excel’s filter to text filters. If you attempt to filter a column you think has numeric or date data, but the filter choices are for text filtering, then the text is somewhere in the data.
- Filter multiple columns simultaneously with Kutools for Excel. If you cannot apply the Advanced Filter expertly, the Kutools for Excel’s Super Filter also can do you a favor. With it, you just need to select the criteria as same as using the Filter feature without typing the criteria manually.
- Click the Filter button next to the column heading, and then click Clear Filter from '.
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Select any cell within the PivotTable, then go to Pivot Table Analyze Filter Insert Slicer. Select the fields you want to create slicers for.
Today’s author, Dany Hoter, a Product Planner on the Excel team, talks about some performance characteristics he recently discovered using various methods to manipulate large ranges using VBA.
Problem description
You have a large range in Excel with data. Let’s say it contains 100,000 rows and 50 columns for each row (Yes you are using Excel 2007 of course). So altogether you have 5,000,000 cells. Columns A to F have some alphanumeric data that you need analyze and based on the combination of values for each row you need to use the numeric values in G to H to do some calculations and store the results in columns I and J. You could place 200,000 formulas in I and J but you see that a spreadsheet with such a volume of formulas gets very sow and consumes huge amounts of memory.
You decide to try and solve it in a piece of VBA code. The question is how to implement such a task in the most efficient way?
What are your options
How can you scan a range in Excel, read the values in some cells, and change some others?
Use a range object
Let’s assume that the range you want to read starts at A1
The code looks something like this:
Dim DataRange as Range ‘ Could also be Dim DataRange as Object
Dim Irow as Long
Dim MaxRows as Long
Dim Icol as Integer
Dim MaxCols as Long
Dim MyVar as Double
Set DataRange=Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion
MaxRows= Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
MaxCols= Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Columns.Count
For Irow=1 to MaxRows
For icol=1 to MaxCols
MyVar=DataRange(Irow,Icol)
If MyVar > 0 then
MyVar=MyVar*Myvar ‘ Change the value
DataRange(Irow,Icol)=MyVar
End If
Next Icol
Next Irow
Dim Irow as Long
Dim MaxRows as Long
Dim Icol as Integer
Dim MaxCols as Long
Dim MyVar as Double
Set DataRange=Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion
MaxRows= Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
MaxCols= Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Columns.Count
For Irow=1 to MaxRows
For icol=1 to MaxCols
MyVar=DataRange(Irow,Icol)
If MyVar > 0 then
MyVar=MyVar*Myvar ‘ Change the value
DataRange(Irow,Icol)=MyVar
End If
Next Icol
Next Irow
Use the selection and move it using offset
Many VBA developers learned VBA techniques from macro recording.
When using relative reference the generated VBA code creates statements like:
ActiveCell.Offset(0, -1).Range(“A1”).Select
As a consequence many developers adopt this technique and use the ActiveCell or selection ranges to move from cell to cell in code and read or write the cell values. The code will look like this:
Dim Irow As Long
Dim MaxRows As Long
Dim Icol As Integer
Dim MaxCols As Long
Dim MyVar As Double
Range(“A1”).Select
MaxRows = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
MaxCols = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Columns.Count
For Irow = 1 To MaxRows
For Icol = 1 To MaxCols
MyVar = ActiveCell.Value
If MyVar > 0 Then
MyVar=MyVar*Myvar ‘ Change the value
ActiveCell.Value = MyVar
End If
ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Select ‘ Move one column to the right
Next Icol
ActiveCell.Offset(1, -MaxCols).Select ‘ Move one rows down and back to first column
Next Irow
Dim MaxRows As Long
Dim Icol As Integer
Dim MaxCols As Long
Dim MyVar As Double
Range(“A1”).Select
MaxRows = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
MaxCols = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Columns.Count
For Irow = 1 To MaxRows
For Icol = 1 To MaxCols
MyVar = ActiveCell.Value
If MyVar > 0 Then
MyVar=MyVar*Myvar ‘ Change the value
ActiveCell.Value = MyVar
End If
ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Select ‘ Move one column to the right
Next Icol
ActiveCell.Offset(1, -MaxCols).Select ‘ Move one rows down and back to first column
Next Irow
Use a variant type variable
This technique copies the values from all cells in the range into a variable in memory, manipulates the values inside this variable and if needed moves the values back to the range after manipulation.
Here is the code this time:
Dim DataRange As Variant
Dim Irow As Long
Dim MaxRows As Long
Dim Icol As Integer
Dim MaxCols As Long
Dim MyVar As Double
DataRange = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Value ‘ Not using set
MaxRows = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
MaxCols = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Columns.Count
For Irow = 1 To MaxRows
For Icol = 1 To MaxCols
MyVar = DataRange(Irow, Icol)
If MyVar > 0 Then
MyVar=MyVar*Myvar ‘ Change the value
DataRange(Irow, Icol) = MyVar
End If
Next Icol
Next Irow
Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion = DataRange ‘ writes back the result to the range
Dim Irow As Long
Dim MaxRows As Long
Dim Icol As Integer
Dim MaxCols As Long
Dim MyVar As Double
DataRange = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Value ‘ Not using set
MaxRows = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
MaxCols = Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion.Columns.Count
For Irow = 1 To MaxRows
For Icol = 1 To MaxCols
MyVar = DataRange(Irow, Icol)
If MyVar > 0 Then
MyVar=MyVar*Myvar ‘ Change the value
DataRange(Irow, Icol) = MyVar
End If
Next Icol
Next Irow
Range(“A1”).CurrentRegion = DataRange ‘ writes back the result to the range
Another difference is that this method is blazing fast compared to the two others.
Performance Summary
I compared the three methods on relatively large ranges and here are the results:
Method | Operation | Cells/Sec |
Variant | Read | 1,225,490 |
Write | 714,286 | |
Read/Write | 263,158 | |
Range | Read | 250,000 |
Write | 1818 | |
Read/Write | 1,852 | |
Offset | Read | 206 |
Write | 200 | |
Read/Write | 203 |
As you can see using a variant variable is much faster especially when changing cells. Even if the calculation can be done with Excel formulas, in some cases this method is the only one acceptable because using a very large number of formulas can become very slow.
Obviously the one method to avoid is moving the ActiveCell using Offset.
How to filter multiple values in only one column in Excel?
It is easy for us to filter a specific value in a column with the Filter function in Excel, but, sometimes, you may need to filter multiple values from a long column as below screenshot shown. To check the items one by one into the long Filter list box may not be the best way for filtering. In this article, I will talk about some quick ways for solving this job.
Original Data | Filter based on | Filter result |
Filter multiple values from one column with the Advanced Filter function
In Excel, the Advanced Filter function can help you to filter multiple values in a column quickly and easily. Please do as this:
1. Click Data > Advanced, see screenshot:
2. In the Advanced Filter dialog box, please do the following operations:
(1.) Select Filter the list, in-place option from the Action section;
(2.) Then, select the data range that you want to filter in the List range, and specify the list of multiple values you want to filter based on in the Criteria range; (Note: The header name of the filter column and criteria list must be the same.)
3. Then, click OK button, your specified items have been filtered out from the data range.
Filter multiple values from one column with a helper column
In this section, you can also use a helper column for dealing with this job.
1. Enter the below formula into a cell – C2 beside your data:
Note: In the above formula, E2:E5 is the value list that you want to filter based on, and A2 is the first cell of the column that you want to filter.
2. Then, drag the fill handle down to the cells that you want to use, and the cells will display 1 or 0, 1 indicates the values that you want to filter based on.
3. Then, select the helper column, and click Data > Filter, in the filter list box, check 1 from the Select All section, see screenshot:
3. And, all the values you specified have been filtered out, see screenshot:
Original Data | Filter based on | Filter result |
Filter multiple values from one column and save the filter criteria for future using
Sometimes, you may want to save the filter criteria after filtering for reusing next time, with Kutools for Excel’s Super Filter feature, you can not only filter data by multiple criteria in one or more columns, but also can save the filter criteria as you need.
Tips:To apply this Super Filter feature, firstly, you should download the Kutools for Excel, and then apply the feature quickly and easily.
After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as this:
1. Select the data range that you want to filter, and then, click Kutools Plus > Super Filter, see screenshot:
2. In the Super Filter pane, set the following filter criteria as you need:
(1.) In the Relationship in Group drop down, select Or option;
(2.) Then specify the filter criteria in the criteria box one by one as you need;
(3.) Click Filter button.
3. And, you will get the filter result as you need, see screenshot:
Tips: You can save the current filter criteria and reuse it next time as below screenshot shown:
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