When sorting your Excel tables and worksheets in Office 2011 for Mac, you’re likely to use ascending and descending sort orders most often. The quick way to sort a table or data range is to select a cell in the column you want to sort. Then go to the Ribbon’s Data tab, find the Sort and Filter group, and click Sort. The first time you click this button, the sort is lowest to highest or alphabetical. Click the button again to sort highest to lowest or reverse alphabetically.

Don’t click the column letter before sorting. If you do, the sort will be applied only to the contents of the column, not the entire table or data range.

Step 4: Do filter on column D. As we want to do filter by the criteria in sheet2 column A, so we only keep the rows which its D column value is 1. Select on D column in sheet1, click on Data-Filter, check on filter value 1, then click OK. Then we get the same result. Related Functions.

Filter multiple columns simultaneously with Kutools for Excel. If you cannot apply the Advanced Filter expertly, the Kutools for Excel’s Super Filter also can do you a favor. With it, you just need to select the criteria as same as using the Filter feature without typing the criteria manually. In Excel, you can sort numbers, text, weekdays, months, or items from custom lists that you create. You can also sort by font color, cell color, or icon sets.

Filtering data is an useful task so that we can have our data sorted out, to use filter in excel there are two different methods, the first being the keyboard shortcut which CTRL + SHIFT + L when we select the data range or the columns and second is by using the filter tool provided in the insert tab in the filters section after selecting the data range. So, speaking of design flaws, Excel in Microsoft Office 2016 for the Mac tries to present 'intelligent' filtering for a column based on the data in the column. I'm talking about the filter menu in the filter 'Choose One' dropdown, entries such as Equals, Does Not Equal, Begins With, Ends With, etc.

After 27 years, Microsoft changed the name of this feature from AutoFilter to just Filter? R.I.P., AutoFilter. The Filter feature places a button to the right of each cell in the header row of a table or data range. Filter is turned on by default when you make a table, and you can see these buttons in the header row of a table. You can toggle Filter on or off by pressing Command-Shift-F. When you click the Filter button in a column header, the Filter dialog displays. The column header label is the title of the dialog. Filter lets you sort and filter.

Sorting data in Excel tables

The upper portion of the Filter dialog is for sorting:

• Ascending: Click this button to sort the column from lowest to highest or alphabetically.

• Descending: Click this button to sort the column from highest to lowest, or reverse alphabetically.

• By Color: If you have applied color formats to a table, you can use this pop-up menu to sort by cell color or font color.

Filtering data in Excel tables

Beneath the Sort functionality is the Filter section of the Filter dialog. Usually, you know what you’re looking for in a column, so the first thing to do is either type what you want in the search filter or choose it from the Choose One pop-up menu and form field. Starting at the top of the Filter options you can choose:

• By Color: Show records in your column that match the cell color, font color, or cell icon. If you haven’t applied colors or conditional formatting, this pop-up menu is inactive.

• Choose One: Select a criterion from this pop-up menu. Then, in the pop-up menu to the right, you can select a record from the column that matches the set of conditions.

• Check boxes: You can select and deselect these boxes to display only rows that match the selected items.

• Clear Filter button: Removes all criteria from the entire Filter dialog so that no filter or sorting is performed.

Quickly filter cells by uppercase / lowercase in Excel

Some Excel users may mark important records with uppercase in Excel. But for amount a long list of records, how could they quickly find out these records with uppercase? Kutools for Excel’s Special Filter feature can help you quickly filter cells by uppercase or lowercase from a list in Excel.

Filter cells by lowercase in Excel

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Click Kutools Plus >> Special Filter >> Special Filter, see screenshot:

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Filter cells by uppercase in Excel

You can apply the Special Filter feature to filter cells by uppercase from a list easily in Excel.

1. Select the list you will filter cells by uppercase, and click Kutools Plus > Special Filter > Special Filter.

2. In the Special Filter dialog box, please check the Text option, select Uppercase Text from below drop-down list, and click the Ok button. See screenshot:

3. In the popping out Kutools for Excel dialog box, please click the OK button.

Now you can see all cells with uppercase text are filtered out. See screenshot:

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Filter cells by lowercase in Excel

The Special Filter feature can also filter cells by lowercase from a list easily in Excel.

1. Select the list you will filter cells by lowercase, and click Kutools Plus > Special Filter > Special Filter.

2. In the Special Filter dialog box, please check the Text option, select Lowercase Text from below drop-down list, and click the Ok button. See screenshot:

3. Now a dialog box pops out and shows how many cells have been found. Please click the OK button to close it.

Now you can see all cells with lowercase are filtered out. See screenshot:

Notes:

1. If you have specified the font color and background color in the Processing of results section, it will add font color and background color for all filtered out cells.

2. If you need to select the entire rows of all filtered out cells, please check the Select entire row option.

Demo: Filter cells by uppercase / lowercase in Excel

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