Range.AdvancedFilter method (Excel)

Filters or copies data from a list based on a criteria range. If the initial selection is a single cell, that cell's current region is used.

Syntax

expression.AdvancedFilter (Action, CriteriaRange, CopyToRange, Unique)

expression A variable that represents a Range object.

Parameters

Name	Required/Optional	Data type	Description
Action	Required	XlFilterAction	One of the constants of XlFilterAction specifying whether to make a copy or filter the list in place.
CriteriaRange	Optional	Variant	The criteria range. If this argument is omitted, there are no criteria.
CopyToRange	Optional	Variant	The destination range for the copied rows if Action is xlFilterCopy. Otherwise, this argument is ignored.
Unique	Optional	Variant	True to filter unique records only. False to filter all records that meet the criteria. The default value is False.

Return value

Variant

Example

This example filters a database named Database based on a criteria range named Criteria.

Range("Database").AdvancedFilter _ 
 Action:=xlFilterInPlace, _ 
 CriteriaRange:=Range("Criteria")

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