If your company is working with a large list in an Excel spreadsheet, take advantage of the program's built-in filter customization tools to limit the number of rows included in your filter results.

Advance Filter in Microsoft Excel is easy to use. Learn how to filter data based on complex conditions in Excel the right way.

Learn the criteria expression for finding blank cells using Excel's Advanced Filter feature. A few weeks ago, I showed you how to use And and Or operators with Excel’s Advanced Filter feature.

You can't use a SUM() function to sum a filtered list, unless you intend to evaluate hidden and unhidden values. Here's how to sum only the values that meet your filter's criteria.