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how do I use auto filter?

RE: auto filter

Highlight an entire header row or a particular heading of a column. Go to data, filter and autofilter. This turns it on. You will be able to click on the little arrow and you will see a list of all unique values in the column. If for example you have the value of 'France' in that column several times (say you are looking at a sales data sheet and want to only return the french sales) then choosing france from the filter list would show only records with France value. Its basically a simple way to show groups of records together. If there is a filter on the column, the arrow will turn blue. You can use more than one filter on the data, for example to show all frenhc sales for a particular month.

Excel tip:

Turn off AutoComplete in Excel

You may have noticed when typing into your spreadsheets that if you start to enter labels that begin with the same letters as a label that has been previously entered in the same spreadsheet, Excel will try and automatically complete the text for you. This feature is called AutoComplete.

If you find this feature more annoying than useful, you can turn it off by:

1. Going to Tools - Options.

2. Select the Edit tab.

3. Remove the tick from next to the "Enable AutoComplete for cell values" option.

4. Click OK.

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