Business Solutions VBA and Macros for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007

Chapter 12. Data Mining with Advanced Filter

IN THIS CHAPTER

Advanced Filter Is Easier in VBA Than in Excel	249
Using Advanced Filter to Extract a Unique List of Values	250
Using Advanced Filter with Criteria Ranges	257
Using Filter in Place in Advanced Filter	265
The Real Workhorse: xlFilterCopy with All Records Rather than Unique Records Only	267
Using AutoFilter	274
Next Steps	280

Advanced Filter Is Easier in VBA Than in Excel

Using the arcane Advanced Filter command is so hard in the Excel user interface that it is pretty rare to find someone who enjoys using it regularly. In versions of Excel prior to 2007, the AutoFilter command was probably used by most people rather than the Advanced Filter. In Excel 2007, Microsoft renamed the AutoFilter to Filter ...