Thread: [Solved] Excel 2016 Filter Help
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Old 03-22-2017, 05:25 PM
Maxer49 Maxer49 is offline Windows 10 Office 2016
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Default Excel 2016 Filter Help

Hello everyone,

I have recently been tasked with sorting through large amounts of transactions. When I have the original data exported to excel they all have very random descriptions based of of the type of tranasaction.

I must sort out only certain transactions and change the description to something more understandable for a client's eyes. However, in order to figure out what kind of transaction it is, is through the description. So to help me out I use the filter tool to uncheck any of the transactions I know that I do not need to change the description of.

Example: Transactions that I do not need let's say read as follows

1001EPOSIT
$LNL:TREASURY

As there will be multiple of each of the descriptions I will filter them out based off of their description.

So as they are checked off, they are hidden. Now for transactions that I need to change the description go as follows:

JLN:TRANSFER
$MM:RUSH

Transactions with descriptions matching these will still be checked. However this is where the PROBLEM arises. (Actually a small problem but still would help to have it solved)

I will now takes these descriptions and since I know what they mean I can change them to make more sense. For an example I will change them like this:

Transfer to John Smith
Mail to John Doe

Now that I have changed these descriptions, they will be hidden since they do not match the original descriptions that I left checked on the filter box. In order to have them show up again I have to go back in and check them.

My question is there a way to make it so that when I change these descriptions that they will continue to be shown on worksheet and do not require me to go back in and check them manually?

*It doesn't seem like a serious problem but there are already 100+ descriptions to go through and check off/on in the filter and with every change it will create another unique box to check in the filter.

**Not sure if this changes anything but it is a shared worksheet. I am the only one working within it though.
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