I’m trying to filter a column based on values in another column. I click on the column that I want to filter (I click on “A” in sheet 1). The whole column is selected. I click on advanced filter. I click the button to select the second column. I go to sheet 2 and click on “A”. That’s my column with the filter criteria. I click OK and nothing happens. All records are returned. How the heck does that thing work?
EDIT
I finally found out why. The column that you use as filter criteria has to have the same header name as the column that you want to filter … that’s so stupid -_- why wouldn’t you allow someone to filter a column based on a simple list of values without header name?
You can use filter based on a column B that will have formula:
=COUNTIF(Sheet2!A:A,A2)
Now just filter column B all values that are greater than 0.
As for your issue with advanced filter just select data without header row when applying advanced filter.
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