Comments on: Chrome and Google Spreadsheets

By: Tina Traversa

Tina Traversa — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:25:45 +0000

Excellent ! Thanks Barney ! One more thing, If I wanted to have a tab with everyone's projects listed, and then individual tabs, like Tina, Barney, and Chris – how would I do that? Can I reference a different sheet in my filter?

By: barneyb

barneyb — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:56:34 +0000

You're not filtering the rows in-place, you're creating a new listing of rows by filtering the "real" rows. Look at cell E2 in this spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnVO3WmYAWTzdGl0UDdXQ3pGV3hmYXhfaklpdG5rU2c&hl=en

By: Tina Traversa

Tina Traversa — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:14:31 +0000

That all makes sense Barney… But where am I actually placing the formula? In A1 or do I select the column? Sorry if these sound like stupid questions, but I've been on Google for 2 days.

tina

By: barneyb

barneyb — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:21:26 +0000

The example a couple comments up only pulls a single column ("F") and filters on two columns ("A" and "B"). So in your case you'll need something like this: =filter(B:Z,A:A="Tina") The first range ("B:Z") is the columns you want to select. You don't need 'A' because that'll always be 'Tina'. You'll need to change the 'Z' to whatever your last column is. The second range ("A:A") is what you want to filter on. The net result is a filter which says "I want columns B to Z from any row which has 'Tina' in column A".

By: Tina Traversa

Tina Traversa — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:56:54 +0000

I have a spreadsheet of projects assigned to people on my team. Column A is the persons name. There are hundreds of rows in the spreadsheet. How do I setup a filter on column A to just show me the projects for "Tina" ?

By: barneyb

barneyb — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:52:44 +0000

Here's a simple example: =sum(filter(F:F,A:A="23",B:B="barney")) That results in a single number that is computed by summing all the cells in column F where the cell in column A of the same row is "23", and the cell in column B of the same row is "barney". If you omit the sum() call, you'll get an array of cells that will be shown starting at the cell you put the formula in and moving downwards until they run out (e.g. if the filter matches 4 cells, the values will display in the cell you put the formula in, along with the three cells below it). You can also create multi-column results by changing the first (selection) parameter.

By: e-nrique

e-nrique — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:22:34 +0000

how do you filter in google spreadsheet?

By: barneyb

barneyb — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:12:38 +0000

All you need to do is install the Chrome browser, point it at http://docs.google.com/ and go. I added a link to it in the post above (forgot the first time).

By: Dodo

Dodo — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:17:34 +0000

I'll have to pick you brain about this. The editing in Google Excel is S.L.O.W. I don't want to spend the time so I've been doing the roundtripping as well.

See you soon!