How to Use the FILTER Function in Google Sheets | Multiple Columns
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Discover how to skillfully use the FILTER function in Google Sheets for sophisticated data management. This function not only returns multiple matches but also ensures your results are always up-to-date. Perfect for filtering data based on one or multiple criteria, and you can even sort your results with ease.
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▪️ Dynamic Data Filtering: Easily filter data based on varying criteria with real-time updates.
▪️ Multi-Column Filtering: Apply filters across multiple columns to refine your data analysis.
▪️ Automatic Sorting: Learn to sort your filtered data in ascending or descending order, adding an extra layer of organization.
What if you'd like to lookup multiple criteria and return ALL match results? You can use Google Sheets FILTER function. You can return filtered results that meet your specified conditions which can be based on AND as well as OR conditions. You can also use the Filter function for multiple columns.
In this video I'm also going to show you how you can get your FILTER results sorted by putting the Filter function inside the Google Sheet SORT Function.
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00:00 How to Use the FILTER Function in Google Sheets
04:20 FILTER Function with Multiple Columns
05:21 How to Sort Results in FILTER Function
07:08 Difference between FILTER in Excel vs. Google Sheets
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I HAVE STRUGGLED ALOT UNTIL I FOUND THIS VIDEO TO AUTOMATE COPY A SET OF ROWS TO OTHER SHEET , HELPED ME A LOT MADAM, THANKS A LOT
I had been struggling to create a more automated workflow for my tutoring business finances until I found this video. This was awesome and just what I needed!
This is awesome how this is all possible in google sheets. Also before watching this video an ad for actual bedroom sheets was shown😂 I guess they took the keyword “sheets” literally haha.
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
😂 the KZread algorithm has some work to do... or maybe they know what Google Sheets users really need 😉
@TylerStanczak
3 жыл бұрын
@@LeilaGharani haha I thought it was pretty clever advertising😂 also always impressed with your video editing. I know it might be off topic, but it might be cool to see a behind the scenes video on how you make such clean videos. Definitely trying to learn how to up my game in that department :)
Excellent tutorial as usual, thank you!
The best for my food cost automation calculator! thank you 😍
thankyou so much.. i couldnt explain what i wanted and spent a lot of time searching online until i landed on this!!
@LeilaGharani
6 ай бұрын
Great to hear!
THANK YOU - Have have watched 10 videos trying to find somebody to show me how to do this!!!!
@LeilaGharani
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Really nice video, helped me to solve lots of issues, hats to you Leila
Incase while using this function you need to filter dynamic columns. In this case for eg: App and Profit. Then the formula should be - =SORT(FILTER({C5:C,E5:E},B5:B=H6,D5:D>0,2,TRUE) You can arrange the columns however you want For eg: If you need Division and Profit =SORT(FILTER({A5:A,E5:E},B5:B=H6,D5:D>0,2,TRUE) There is a video for this by the same channel on how to do it on Excel and its quite different. Also, many people found it useful. For people who heavily depend on Google Sheets hope this helps.
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your feedback Viraj!
i am so happy after watching this video and before watching this video . about filter function in google sheets . the only helpfull tutorials that make my life way easier . o'h i shall not worry leila has got ton's of more awesome tutorials like this in the future...............😁😁
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Great 👍
Your Filter formula is useful for me. Thank you.
Thanks, you make me look like a hero at work
Thaaanks. I've been trying to use vlookup, indirect, index, match to acquire the same result as this filter function. Now this makes a lot easier. Thank you so much.
I thank you for your well spoken and understandable language madam. Am from Uganda-Africa
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like the video Bruno :)
Awesome as always
This is really helpful and easy to understand. Thank you!
Excellent ... The only reason i didn't wanted to shift from excel to Google was filters but now i m in ... Thanx for this great video 👍
Awesome video! Thank you!
Thank you Leila for this wonderful course. I want to kindly request that you further add date filter to the course like from 1/1/23 - 31/12/23. Thank you
Awesome tutorial, thank you.
Thank you so much for your help
Extremely helpful, thanks!
You are a fantastic teacher, Leila!
Mam your presentations are always very perfect and well arranged ... 👌👌👌
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
So nice of you :)
I really appreciate your many recent Google Sheets videos. I also like the suggestions you make for its improvements. I hope Google is listening.
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like them Derek!
Yet another great video. Well done. I watch these for the subtle nuances. Little things that i really didn’t think about.
This was very helpful, so glad this is up on youtube.
@LeilaGharani
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have been looking for this for years! Thank you thank you thank you.
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help!
thank you for your tutorial.
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome 😊
That was supper helpful and such high quality! Thanks for sharing!!
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
oh perfect! this is EXACTLY what i was looking for! thank you!
The multiple conditions feature is nice. Wish Excel had that. Great tutorial
Super super useful thanks a lot!
Great vedios and well explanation.help me a lot for crack my exam and assignments.thanks a lot❤️
Very good information. Now, I am return back from hospital. Thanks for your good wishes. You have make very good videos on google sheets. Videos on Comparison of google sheets Vs Office 365 are interesting. It is my hobby to see these videos.
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you're feeling better.
What if we want ALL region , in Drop down if add "ALL" What is the changes need to do on filter formula ?
THank you so much! This is a life saver!
Thank you, That's really helpful.
Amazing Explanation! It's clear now :)
This is so helpful.. thanks a lot Leila!
Your videos are very nicely edited, it's cool!
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
I love this function. I don't know in excel, but in sheets you can filter non adjacent columns using the array notation {}. Do it you wanted to return App and Profit only you'd use filter({C6:C,E6:E}, ... ;-)
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Luciano. Yes - in Excel you can too: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gaKpxs2waaeznLg.html
Excellent explanation, thank you for the help! (:
nice vedio
Your content is more than great! you have been help me so much with all your tutorials :D
@LeilaGharani
2 жыл бұрын
Happy to hear that, Georgina!
Very nice thank you for share
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you too
Hi. Thanks so much you make it look very easy! Can I have an "ALL" drop down filter?
These videos are awesome! Thanks so much. I'm using them in my classroom to filter and sort student responses to various tasks. But, I find that as more students add their responses, I have to manually adjust my filter formula to include the new line of data added to the top of the spreadsheet because I have a reverse sort for column A (Timestamp) so I can see the newest submissions first. Is there a way to NOT have to manually change my filter formula every time?
Thank you 🙏 instructive
IT was a great video. Please keep bringing more google sheet videos. Thanks
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, will do!
Brilliant as always. Leila thank you for a wonderful video.
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Leila ... this is perfect
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!
Leila, As usual its excellent. You are rocking.
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😃
thanks teacher.
Very helpful Leila!
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for dropping by Chris.
THANK YOU. JFC this saved me some time. /subscribe
@LeilaGharani
6 ай бұрын
Glad to have you aboard!
Mam, your video is simple and informative. Thanks. Your beautifulness is increase with time !!! Howzat !!!
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot 😊
Greate tutorial Leila!
From your video I noticed that Goggle dynamic formulas have a great feature for expandable range without need to convert data into a table. Although I like tables, but there is something to improve for Microsoft
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Vida. Agree - I like that too. It makes it easier to type in the formulas.
Hey Leila, I was wondering if we can arrange multiple columns in filter function Like sortby function in excel
thanks for this useful video
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
You are most welcome
Thanks for the awesome video!!!!
Sweet flower 🌷
thanks.
As always, thanks for the excellent tutorial. Loved it.... may I ask for a tip please? I basically want to be able to filter a range of columns. The usual formula is something like this: =Filter(Data!A2:Z,Data!A2:A = Choices!A2, Data!B2:B = Choices!B2) Where A2:Z is the range and the filter for column A is A2 and the filter for column B is B2. In other words, the user enters filter choices in A2 and B2. In future, I will extend to many columns A, B, C... The issue is A2 or B2 may sometimes be empty meaning no filtering is required for their respective columns. Hence, I probably need to add ‘IF’ into the Filter. But I can’t seem to crack it. Can you propose the formula by any chance?
@chocochiligaming1541
2 жыл бұрын
Up up
@ericxsim6877
Жыл бұрын
You don't have to modify your formula. Just make sure the source data has record can match specified condition. Example, Choices!A2 = Apple and Choices!B2 is blank. As long as you have a record match these conditions, Filter can generate results for you.
great video. do you have a video telling what the difference between google and ms sheets are?
Hi @LeilaGharani, is there have a way to filter 2 things, like have two drop-down chooses.
Hi Leila, Is there option for table to share from different location like url. Or other options. I don't want to show entire data table in the excel & want to search data on conditional filter n only show 2 column only..
Perfect, go ahead boss
I actually think I prefer the logical statements in Excel, than the multiple conditions in Sheets, I'm not sure why, perhaps I'm a traditionalist! I really wish they'd both offer the ability to aggregate though. Something like: FILTER(C5:E,B5:B6=H6,SUM(D5:D)>0) *, where filter is more akin to a SQL select and group by statement (although Excel could assume the groupings as implicit). Maybe sheets has something for this. *obviously, that wouldn't be applicable in this example as it is already grouped at app/region level, but app sales by division would need aggregated as a better example. Edit: I've probably got the syntax of the function wrong, we really just want to be able to specify the "Select" columns in the first criteria and the conditions (where clause) in the second criteria. Something like: =FILTER((C,D,SUM(E)),(B5:B6=H6)*(SUM(D5:D)>0))
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Rico, agree -more flexibility in the function would have been great. Google sheets has the query function which can do everything you've listed here (it uses SQL syntax). I'll have to make a few videos on that for KZread. It would be great if Excel would a get a function like that.
@ricos1497
3 жыл бұрын
@@LeilaGharani Yes, I forgot about that one, you should it on a previous video (I think I even commented on it!). I'll put a suggestion in to the UserVoice people.
@virajwaghmare4488
3 жыл бұрын
Incase while using this function you need to have dynamic columns. In this case for eg: App and Profit. Then the formula should be - =SORT(FILTER({C5:C,E5:E},B5:B=D5:D>0,2,TRUE)
Would it be possible to filter inside the data set itself using the dropdown instead of creating a new table? I tried to use filter mode and write a condition where I was pointing to the fact the data should be greater than a given cell but it does not work, just work if I use a given number directly.
I just found your videos, and they are super! If i may ask, can i use the filter function from another google sheet? I mean a different google sheet file? Would that be possible?
Can be use at a time google Excelsheet filter use multiple user
Hi Leila, can we also include the Region column in the below output I have date filter instead of Region column but i want the data with Date column as well. can you please help
Great vidéo ! Could you explain how do you do when the FILTER function return "no result" with google sheet ? basically how do we replace the "IF_EXISTS" from excel ... Thx !
Hi Leila, great video and extremely easy to follow. A question for you, what if I wanted to add a sum for the profit column which will be dynamic i.e change when you select a region. Do I need to use a condition or just a simple sum function? Thank you!
@gerardmcmahon2437
Жыл бұрын
My guess Subtotal(9,range) e.g. Subtotal(9,E2:E)
Great, this is what I looking for, but may I know can i add another condition at another dropdown list? so that I can have filter the same roll with two condition. appreciate if you can advice on this.
Hi Leila,I have also joined ur course on udemy I want to know how the filter function will return headings dynamically in Google sheets it works with vstack function in Excel. How It will work in Google sheets.
Hi, Leila! Thank you for this helpful video! Your course is definitely on my list of to dos! Trying to build an internal inventory management system using Google Forms and sheets. Trying to combine two tabs onto another tab using two filter functions. I got that working. But I can’t seem to get the optional drop-down menu filter sections to tie in with the filtered summary data. For example, If the filter option for “Seller” has text value, I want the table with the two filter functions to update the filter based on what seller is in the filter drop-down. But the issue I think is some items have more than one seller each on their own line of text within a cell. So I don’t think the filter function will read partial text from the Seller column… :( Anyone happen to have in insight on this?
Hi this video is so informative, May I know is there any formula to add total sales amount for each country we select ? It would be a great help
So on Google Sheets I have this: =iferror(FILTER('RAW DATA 2'!$B$2:$G,'RAW DATA 2'!$B$2:$B>=$B$1,'RAW DATA 2'!$B$2:$B
When you had "multiple columns" in your title, I thought you meant the CONDITIONS. Do you have a video on what I'm asking for?
1) When you added B5:B, that translates the range will start from B5 until the last row of the workbook or the data? Does this effect the performance of workbooks with lots of formulas? 2) There is no screen tip for formulas like Excel in Google Sheet without having to press F1? 3) Can you evaluate formulas in GS like the F9 key in Excel? 4) Does GS have structured tables like Excel? Thank you!!
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Sal - in regard to your questions: 1) To an extent but not like Excel. With Google sheets, the rows are restricted to 1000 rows - unless you need more then it of course expands. But because it's restricted, it's as if your formula goes to 1000 rows. In Excel this will go to the bottom of the workbook which will make files slower. 2) There is, but in my experience it seems if you turn if off once, it remembers and keeps it off unless you turn it back on. 3) Unfortunately not, you have to evaluate on the grid by breaking down the formula 4) No
@Sal_A
3 жыл бұрын
@@LeilaGharani Thank you ma'am!
@Sal_A
3 жыл бұрын
@@LeilaGharani one more thing - how do you know or how do you tell the range B5:B goes to 1000 rows? So if you have 2000 rows of data where does that range reference go to?
Hi, I am using Google Sheets and want to use the filter option. In my case I would like to filter all columns (let's say from B to S) for a specific date (eg. 28.10.21) and return the value in column A (there could be the name). To not get the same name multiple times I already use the unique() function. But I can't get the filter() function to work. Is there anyway of doing that? Thank you =)
great video, but if I have more then two conditions in one column how could i get it? for example, I have this column DS_occupied have two condistion as shown below? =FILTER( { DS_model, DS_flate, DS_colour, DS_DateEnd } , DS_occupied ="AV", DS_occupied ="Not Found")?
Hi, This is good video but some time we need to filter based on some value but some time we need all data, How can we also include All in Region filter?
I am a HUGE fan of your videos. They have helped me with a lot if complex issues and I am very grateful for that. Did you cover the following yet and I have not found it? Inserting a text box in to Excel and link it with a formul? =VLOOKUP. I tried doing this accross various sheets (invoice - clients) but always receive an error message. Thank you.
@LeilaGharani
3 жыл бұрын
Am glad to hear that :) You need to write your Vlookup formula in a cell somewhere (you can hide it from view) and then link the text box to the result of the Vlookup. You cannot have a formula inside the textbox.
How i can filter 2 or more region at the same time? In other words, i want to filter the results of Europe and Australia at the same time.
Hi Leila - Can you hide columns in filter views? Let's say I have a column just for staff / internal use and I want to share a filter view with a client.
how to create custom column, select only required column. thank you teacher leila
Is it possible to search and filter on text inside NOTES as part of the search criteria?
very helpful and nice video - I am using a sort filter formula to get the top 10 values of a column, but there are some texts or n/a in this column - Does anyone know how I can exclude them all?
Thank you liela, can you teach us how to combine multiple filter array, in Google sheet there is simple way to combine multiple arrays by using { }, but in excel I'm confused
what add on can use in sheets to be able to see the function information like it shows around @2:05
I have cells in table B that equal cells in Table A... a filter is applied to Table A and all the numbers get rearrange, because of this the values in Table B also change, I don't want the values in table B to change, i want the cells in table B that i have linked to table A to always show the original values of the cells they were linked to regardless of the filtered arrangement... so my question is how do I keep the cells in table B that have been linked to table A to follow the original values before the filter was applied?
Hello, Great video I went to filter my spreadsheet and now I can not make go back to the original order now the numbered items are not matching up with the numbers. How do I reset the filter back to normal? If that makes sense.
is there a way to include in your region filter a value that returns all regions?
Leila, how to make a drop down menu, and box display and dding buttons on a page to display desired results. thnx
I could not get the file to pratcie. Is it working?