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Ron de Bruin
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Briefly! EasyFilter is a multi-optioned tool that allows far easier
filtering of data. It allows easier manipulation of the results of the
filtering. Once EasyFilter has been installed, all of the options are
accessed under the
Data > Filter menu or by simply right clicking any
cell within a criteria field in your data table.
Filter Options are on separate tabbed User Interface and options
available are:
Equal-Not Equal [Filters for up to
five alternative = or <> criteria]
Blanks [Filters for
Blanks or non Blanks or Formulas that evaluate to "" or not]
Greater-Less [Filters for >= OR > AND / OR <= OR <]
Begins-Contains-Ends [Ideal for filtering text fields]
Unique-Duplicate [At last an easy way to hunt out uniques and
duplicates]
Special [Text searching with wild cards with
up to 5 Or / And criteria]
Dates [Not enabled unless
you are filtering a field containing dates]
Color
[Fill/Font colors (Normal and Conditional Formatting colors) and Bold cells]
With exception of Unique-Duplicates, option tab, you have 7 "Where-Hows"
available:
1) Filter in place
2)
Copy to new worksheet
3) Copy to new workbook
4) Delete rows
5) Hide rows
6) Copy next to your data
7) Copy below
your data
And for the “Unique-Duplicate” tabbed option only:
1) Filter in place
2) Copy to another
location
3) Copy to new worksheet
4)
Copy to new workbook
5) Unique or Duplicate
With version 2.2 you can also filter on fill/font colors (Normal and
Conditional Formatting colors) and on bold cells. On the Blanks tab you can
also filter now on Formulas that evaluate to "" and Formulas that don't
evaluate to ""
Download
Version 2.22 (Add-in date: 23-Aug-2006)
If you need help please
read this Superb manual (for version 2.01) first from Norman Harker.
All
examples shown in this User Guide are examples that use the EasyFilter
Sample Database.xls file.
Download the User
Guide (made by Norman Harker) Word document
Download the
EasyFilter Sample DataBase (made by Norman Harker)
Dedication
This Version of EasyFilter is
dedicated to the memory of Excel MVP Frank Kabel who was tragically killed
in an accident in his home country of Germany on 5th January 2005.
Frank was a tireless tester of the Beta editions of this version of
EasyFilter and made many suggestions and comments that make this version
what you see today. Some suggestions for development and methods of
execution still remain to be implemented in later versions. The Excel
community has lost one of the most prolific communicators, educators, and
application developers. We have lost a good friend.
Many Thanks to Dave Peterson, Bill Manville, Bob Phillips, the late Frank Kabel and Norman Harker for their help and suggestions.