How to clear filters when opening, saving or closing workbook in Excel?
Suppose you have multiple worksheets containing filtered data in your workbook. To clear all the filters, you need to check the filtered list in different worksheets and then clear them manually one by one. That’s annoying! In this article, we will show you several methods of clearing filters when opening, saving or closing a workbook in Excel.
Clear filters when opening workbook in Excel
Clear filters when saving workbook in Excel
Clear filters when closing/exiting workbook in Excel
Clear filters when opening workbook in Excel
This section is talking about clearing filters in all worksheets when opening a workbook. Please do as follows.
1. In a workbook you need to automatically clear all filters when opening, please press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, please double click ThisWorkbook in the left Project pane, and then copy and paste the below VBA code into the ThisWorkbook (Code) window. See screenshot:
VBA code: Clear all filters when opening workbook
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
'Updated by Extendoffice 20221012
Dim ws As Worksheet
For Each ws In Worksheets
If ws.AutoFilterMode Then
ws.ShowAllData
End If
Next ws
End Sub3. Press the Alt + Q keys to exit the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
4. Click File > Save As. In the popping up Save As dialog box, specify a folder to save this workbook, name it as you need in the File name box, then select Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook option from the Save as type drop-down list, and finally click the Save button.
From now on, when open this Macro-Enabled Workbook, all filters in this workbook will be cleared automatically.
Clear filters when saving workbook in Excel
You can clear all filters from current workbook each time you saving it.
1. In the workbook you need to automatically clear all filters from, please press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, please double click ThisWorkbook in the left Project pane, and then copy and paste the below VBA code into the ThisWorkbook (Code) window. See screenshot:
VBA code: Clear filters when saving workbook
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeSave(ByVal SaveAsUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean)
'Updated by Extendoffice 20221012
Dim ws As Worksheet
For Each ws In Worksheets
If ws.AutoFilterMode Then
ws.ShowAllData
End If
Next ws
End Sub3. Press Alt + Q keys to exit the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
From now on, when saving the workbook, all filters will be cleared automatically.
Clear filters when closing/exiting workbook in Excel
The last section, we will show you how to clear all filters across worksheets when closing or exiting the workbook.
1. Open the workbook you need to automatically clear all filters from, then press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, please double click ThisWorkbook in the left Project pane, and then copy and paste the below VBA code into the ThisWorkbook (Code) window. See screenshot:
VBA code: Clear all filters across worksheets when closing/exiting workbook
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
Dim ws As Worksheet
For Each ws In Worksheets
If ws.AutoFilterMode Then
ws.AutoFilterMode = False
End If
Next ws
End SubNote: If you just want to clear filters in current worksheet, please use the below VBA code.
VBA code: Clear filter in active sheet when closing workbook
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
'Updated by Extendoffice 20221012
Dim ws As Worksheet
Set ws = ActiveSheet
If ws.AutoFilterMode Then
ws.ShowAllData
End If
End Sub3. Press Alt + Q keys to exit the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
From now on, all filters will be cleared automatically after clicking the Close button in the workbook.
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