Now exercise the Advanced Filter and set the ranges to the respective fields. Here we have taken the US and India for searching within the Country column and Football and Cricket for the Favorite Sports column. In our example, we are going to filter from the Country and the Favorite Sports. We can use multiple columns while searching values. And we have found only these sports in our dataset. Our searched sports were Football and Cricket. Here we have selected our dataset into the List range and the search column into the Criteria range. Then you need to select the List range and the Criteria range. Now, click the Advanced Filter from the Sort & Filter option in the Data tab.Īn Advanced Filter dialog box will pop up in front of you. Make sure the search column has the same name as the original column. We can search multiple values in a single column. We can use the Advanced Filter option to search multiple items. Using Advanced Filter Option to Search Multiple Items
#Search multiple excel files for data how to#
Here we have to list the items first which we want to find within our dataset. Now we are going to see how to filter using a helper column. In the earlier section, we have directly used the Filter option. Now select any of the options from there, here we are selecting Football and Tennis. You need to click the filter icon from that column. In our example, now we are going to filter through the Favorite Sports columns. Not only within a single column but also for multiple columns we can perform our search. We have filtered our dataset with multiple items (countries). Only the data from these three countries have been in front of us. One item has been selected, now we need to select a couple of items more (since we are going to search multiple items). Since our agenda is to use several items for filtering, we will select a few countries from there.įirst of all, select a country. For example, we are going with the Country column.Īll the countries’ names will be visible. Now we need to click on any of the filter icons, for which we want to filter our data. You will find the filter icon at the bottom corner of the column’s headers. You will find this Filter option in the Sort & Filter section from the Data tab.įirst, select the range of data you want to use the filter, and then click the Filter. We can use the basic filter option directly to search multiple items. The basic filter option can be useful to search multiple items. OpenFile : Use this to automatically open the output files when the search operation is completed.How To Search Multiple Items In Excel Filter.xlsx
#Search multiple excel files for data windows#
Grid : Use this to display the summary of search results in grid output windows (See Fig-1) Color : Use this to colorize the values found in the excel files (in darkblue color) Recurse : Use this with -Folder option to search excel files recursively File : The file name of the Microsoft Excel file (Use it if the -Folder is not specified) Folder : The folder name in which multiple Microsoft Excel files should already exist (Use it if the -File is not specified)
\Excel_search.ps1 C:\MyExcelFiles -Recurse -Color -OpenFile -Grid Parameters: You will need to specify -Folder or -File parameter at least. Then, open powershell console and run with following necessary parameters. The output files will have the same names as original files appended with _RESULT.xlsx (Also the script will automatically create the search values.txt on the first run if not exists). You need to create search values.txt file and insert the contents line-by-line that you want to search. Make sure Microsoft Excel is already installed before you run the script. So, after checking how it can be achieved in powershell, I found comObject is the way to go, which can be used to automate most windows applications. Sometimes, I have to look for bulk of IP Addresses on multiple excel files but I have do it by opening the excel files one-by-one. Inventory documentation with excel a thing that most Infra admins has to deal with on a daily basis.
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