Excel FILTER Function TRICK for Non Adjacent Columns

6 August 2020 Excel Hacks: Tips & Tricks

Are you up for a really cool trick with Excel's new Filter Function? With a simple trick, you can use it to get multiple match results from Non-Adjacent columns in a Simple & Dynamic way. You can also use this trick to get unique values from non-adjacent columns.

So, let's say we have a dataset with 6 columns but we're only interested in the information in column 2 and 5, i.e. in non-adjacent columns. Plus, we don't want to get "all" value from these columns but instead only records that match a certain criteria. And we want it to be in a dynamic way so whenever we change the criteria, the result updates automatically.

I'll show you an Excel trick that get's this done in record time. The secret is to broadcast array constants in our formula. And not only that: You can also use this to get a UNIQUE list of combinations that are in non-adjacent columns.

As a bonus tip I'll show you how you can SORT the result based on a value that's not in the filtered end result.
Many thanks to my student Adam Payne for sharing this method with me!

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Time Stamps
00:00 Multiple Match Results from Non-Adjacent Columns
01:40 Excel FILTER Function
04:00 Filter Out the Columns You Do NOT need
06:09 Get UNIQUE list from Non-Adjacent Columns
09:10 Bonus Trick for Sorting

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