Microsoft Excel's new FILTER() function is a great tool for reporting and dashboards. We'll show you how to use it to get more done.

You can filter data in Excel based on either certain parameters in columns or over the whole sheet, and you can later unfilter the sheet.

If your company is working with a large list in an Excel spreadsheet, take advantage of the program's built-in filter customization tools to limit the number of rows included in your filter results.

To display specific values in a PivotTable in Microsoft Excel, use one of the many built-in filters, such as Top 10.

Excel formats your data into a table. You will notice filter buttons (small arrows at the top to filter your data) and table styling for better readability.

One typical application for Excel is to find information in a list of data. The simplest way to do this is filtering the data so that Excel does the work of finding the pertinent information for you ...