We'll work with Filters a lot in this course. Filters allow you to weed out data you don't want and show just a specific set of data. For example, if you have a bunch stores in different cities, and you want to see sales from just your Toronto stores.

You can also use filters to show you the Top 10 items (or top 10%, or top 20 items, and so on).

You can use Custom Filters to show you, for example, all stores that have sales between $100 and $900.

You can create Advanced Filters to specify your own criteria row. This will let you create query-like structures in your Excel spreadsheets and really get the data you want!

We've got a great side project in this class where we take a long list of customers (some of whom are missing data), filter that data correctly, sort and filter by ZIP code...

...and then create mailing labels using Microsoft Word and a Mail Merge.

You will learn all about Filter Wildcard characters.

You will learn about Calculated Filters.

You will learn how to create Custom Views with your filter. This will allow you to set up special filters, such as "show me all Buffalo stores with at least $500 in sales," and "show me all Toronto stores with at least $300 in sales." You can then quickly switch between them using the toolbar.

Next we'll learn about the SUBTOTAL function, and how it's much better than SUM or AVERAGE when working with Filters. Why do you need it? What's the benefit? You'll find out!

You'll also learn how to create automatic Subtotals (not to be confused with the SUBTOTAL function). These are automatic subtotals for groups of records - like "show me the sales totals for each group of stores by month."

We'll talk a little bit about Grouping and Outlining. We'll discuss it in great detail in the next class (Excel 222).

Learning how to use Filters properly is the cornerstone for good, solid data analysis. Whether you've got a few records to filter, or several thousand, the lessons in this course will teach you how to manage that data.

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