Today, we want to learn how advanced filters work in Excel, especially between conditions.
Let’s start. When we have our dataset, we write our advanced filter conditions in cells. We need to have a header and a condition for this header. If we write conditions in one row, all of them are connected with the final criteria. It means that each condition should be met in order to take out the whole row from our dataset (1). When we add conditions to further rows, it meas that it’s an ‘or’ condition (2). In this case, we will look for strawberries or plums. If we want to create a between condition, we need to write the header two times (3) in order to create a common part. In our case, we are looking for strawberries that are equal or greater than 500 and smaller or equal to 750, and in the case of plums we want the plums that are equal or greater than 300 and smaller or equal to 500. We have to remember that those conditions should make a common part (Fig. 1)
When we want to go to advanced filters, we need to select one cell in our dataset (1), then go to the Data tab (2), then Advanced filters (3). In the Advanced filter window press the Copy to another location radio button (4), and select the criteria range (5). The last step is selecting the target cell, which will be cell E6 (6) (Fig. 2)
Remember that if conditions are written in one row, they are combined as an ‘and’ condition, and when they are in separate rows, they are combined as an ‘or’ condition. Moreover, we can add an empty condition for different headers. But, since there isn’t any condition in the Date column, we can select the range without it. In figure 3, we can see the final table with sales of plums that are between 300 and 500 and sales of strawberries that are between 500 and 750, together with all possible dates for those conditions (Fig. 3)
