auto filters

D

Dan Hylton

It seems that the auto filter function in excel 2000, will
not filter 12,500 lines. Is there a limit?
 
J

John Wilson

Dan,

The autofilter doesn't have a limit (other than the maximum
rows on a worksheet). Where there is a limitation is on the
number of items displayed on a filtered drop down and that
limit is 1000.
If you have more than 1000 unique entries in one of the drop downs,
only the first 1000 will be displayed.

John
 
J

John Wilson

Dan,

One workaround (sloppy) is to add another column to
filter the data into smaller chunks.
e.g.
Column A has dates for 10 years (well over the 1000
display limitation). Insert a column to the left of A and
place the corresponding year only in the cells.
Then if you wanted to look for something, you could filter
on the year first and then the date.

John
 

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