Question

I need some help copying data from one excel worksheet to another. For example:

Sample Data

__A__B___C

1 aaa bbb ddd

2 bbb ccc eee

3 ccc fff rrr

4 ccc fff ttt

5 ddd eee ggg

6 aaa ddd eee

7 bbb fff hhh

8 eee eee eee

So for the above records if I do a ‘CTRL + F’ and search to find All ‘eee’ the results will show 6 instances in C2, B5, C6, A8, B8, C8

Now I want to copy the whole of rows 2,5,6 and 8 to another worksheet.

Answer 1

To achieve what you need please do the following (assuming your data is located in columns A:C starting row 2, i.e. there are headers):

1. Type in D2 (additional column): =IF(OR(A2:C2="eee"),1,0), but press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER instead of usual ENTER – this will define an ARRAY formula and will result in {} brackets around it (but do NOT type them manually!).
2. Autofill formula as required.
3. Add filter to the whole A:D range.
4. Apply filter to column D for value 1.
5. Copy entire filtered columns A:C and paste anywhere – only filtered rows will be copied.

Sample file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qscwbf5kbnwi5pa/Filtering3Columns.xlsx