1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27 28<meta> 29 <topic id="textscalcguidedatabase_filterxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30 <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Filtering Cell Ranges </title> 31 <filename>/text/scalc/guide/database_filter.xhp</filename> 32 </topic> 33 </meta> 34 <body> 35<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153541"><bookmark_value>cell ranges;applying/removing filters</bookmark_value> 36 <bookmark_value>filtering;cell ranges/database ranges</bookmark_value> 37 <bookmark_value>database ranges;applying/removing filters</bookmark_value> 38 <bookmark_value>removing;cell range filters</bookmark_value> 39</bookmark><comment>MW changed "cell ranges," added "removing;" and made one "database ranges;" entry out of two. Same for "filtering;"</comment> 40<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3153541" role="heading" level="1" l10n="CHG" 41 oldref="47"><variable id="database_filter"><link href="text/scalc/guide/database_filter.xhp" name="Filtering Cell Ranges">Filtering Cell Ranges</link> 42</variable></paragraph> 43 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145069" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG" oldref="48">You can use several filters to filter cell ranges in spreadsheets. A standard filter uses the options that you specify to filter the data. An AutoFilter filters data according to a specific value or string. An advanced filter uses filter criteria from specified cells.</paragraph> 44 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10682" role="heading" level="2" l10n="CHG">To Apply a Standard Filter to a Cell Range</paragraph> 45 <list type="ordered"> 46 <listitem> 47 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150398" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="50">Click in a cell range.</paragraph> 48 </listitem> 49 <listitem> 50 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10693" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Data - Filter - Standard Filter</item>.</paragraph> 51 </listitem> 52 <listitem> 53 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156422" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="51">In the <emph>Standard Filter</emph> dialog, specify the filter options that you want.</paragraph> 54 </listitem> 55 <listitem> 56 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106A5" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph> 57 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153143" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="52">The records that match the filter options that you specified are shown.</paragraph> 58 </listitem> 59 </list> 60 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153728" role="heading" level="2" l10n="CHG" 61 oldref="53">To Apply an AutoFilter to a Cell Range</paragraph> 62 <list type="ordered"> 63 <listitem> 64 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144764" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="54">Click in a cell range or a database range.</paragraph> 65 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id9303872" role="tip" l10n="NEW">If you want to apply multiple AutoFilters to the same sheet, you must first define database ranges, then apply the AutoFilters to the database ranges.</paragraph> 66 </listitem> 67 <listitem> 68 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154944" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="55">Choose <item type="menuitem">Data - Filter - AutoFilter</item>.</paragraph> 69 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106DB" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">An arrow button is added to the head of each column in the database range.</paragraph> 70 </listitem> 71 <listitem> 72 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153878" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="56">Click the arrow button in the column that contains the value or string that you want to set as the filter criteria.</paragraph> 73 </listitem> 74 <listitem> 75 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10749" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Select the value or string that you want to use as the filter criteria.</paragraph> 76 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN1074C" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">The records that match the filter criteria that you selected are shown.</paragraph> 77 </listitem> 78 </list> 79 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106E8" role="heading" level="2" l10n="CHG">To Remove a Filter From a Cell Range</paragraph> 80 <list type="ordered"> 81 <listitem> 82 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN1075C" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG">Click in a filtered cell range.</paragraph> 83 </listitem> 84 <listitem> 85 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106EC" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Data - Filter - Remove Filter</item>.</paragraph> 86 </listitem> 87 </list> 88 <section id="relatedtopics"> 89 <embed href="text/scalc/guide/database_define.xhp#database_define"/> 90 <embed href="text/scalc/guide/database_sort.xhp#database_sort"/> 91 <embed href="text/scalc/guide/cellcopy.xhp#cellcopy"/> 92 <embed href="text/scalc/guide/specialfilter.xhp#specialfilter"/> 93 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id4525284" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW"><link href="https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Defining_a_Data_Range">Wiki page about defining a data range</link></paragraph> 94 </section> 95 </body> 96</helpdocument>