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Your Excel filter is not working correctly? Use These Fixes

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

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MostExcelusers probably set up data tables within that application. Users can filter data in their tables with Excel’s filtering tool. However, sometimes Excel spreadsheet tables might not filter the data correctly.

If you need to fix Excel’s table filtering, check out some of the potential resolutions below.

How can I fix Excel table filtering?

1. Select the whole column to apply the filter to

If Excel is not filtering the whole column in a spreadsheet, you can manually configure it to do this. What you need to do is select the column and tweak its filter settings.

Launch Microsoft Excel.

2.Open the file where the filter is not working.

3.Select the table’s whole spreadsheet column by clicking the column’s letter.

Navigate to theDatatab.
Then click theFilterbutton to apply the filter to the whole column.

6.Click the cell filter arrow button to open the filtering options shown directly below.

Uncheck theBlankscheckbox. This setting will ensure that blank cells will not be filtered.
Click onOKto apply the changes.

2. Delete blank cells from the table’s column

Alternatively, you can erase blank rows from a table’s column to include values below the empty cells within the filter.

Select all the empty cells’ rows by holding the Ctrl key. Then right-click and select theDeleteoption.

3. Ungroup sheets

TheFilteroption will be greyed out when your sheets are grouped together. Thus, you can’t filter spreadsheet tables in grouped sheets. To fix that, right-click the grouped sheets at the bottom of Excel and selectUngroup sheets.

4. Unprotect the worksheet

5. Unmerge cells

6. Set up a new filter

Those are some of the resolutions that might get your Excel table filters fixed. In most cases, reapplying filters or clearing them to set up new filters will often resolve Excel filtering issues.

Which of the solutions solved the pro-Excel filtering issue for you? Let us know by leaving a message in the comments section below.

Your Excel filter is not working correctly? Use These Fixes#

How can I fix Excel table filtering?#

1. Select the whole column to apply the filter to#

2. Delete blank cells from the table’s column#

3. Ungroup sheets#

4. Unprotect the worksheet#

5. Unmerge cells#

6. Set up a new filter#