How to filter cells by bold characters in Excel?
You can apply the bold font style to format the data or contents in cells in Excel, but do you know how to filter cells by the cells which containing bold font style in Excel? This article collects several tricky VBA macros to filter cells by bold characters in Excel.
Filter bold cells with the helper column
Filter bold cells with the VBA code
Easily filter bold cells with an amazing tool
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Filter bold cells with the help column
Supposing you need to filter all bold cells in column B as below screenshot shown, please do as follows:
The below user-defined function helps to identify whether a cell in a column is bold or not, and then return the results as TRUE or False in a helper column. You can filter all TRUE results to display only the bold cells in column B.
1. Press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window, click Insert > Module, then copy the following VBA code into the Module window. See screenshot:
VBA code: Filter cells by bold characters
Function IsBold(rCell As Range)
IsBold = rCell.Font.Bold
End Function
3. Press the Alt + Q keys to close the code window.
4. Select a blank cell which is adjacent to the table (the selected cell should locate on the same row of the first row in the filter table), copy the below formula into it and press the enter key.
=IsBold(B2)
5. Keep selecting the first result cell, and drag the Fill Handle to get all results. See screenshot:
6. Select the header of the helper column, click Data > Filter. Click the arrow button besides the header cell, check the TRUE box only, and then click OK.
Now all bold cells in column B are filtered out as below screenshot shown.
Quickly filter bold cells in a column with several clicks in Excel:
The Filter Bold cells utility of Kutools for Excel can help you quickly filter all bold cells in a certain column with several clicks as the below demo shown.
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Filter bold cells with the VBA code
1. Select the column range you will filter out all bold cells except the header cell. In this case, I select B2:B16.
2. Press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window.
3. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window, click Insert > Module, then copy and paste the following VBA code into the Module window.
VBA code: Filter bold cells in a column
Sub FilterBold()
'Updated by Extendoffice 20191018
Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In Selection
If cell.Font.Bold = False Then
cell.EntireRow.Hidden = True
End If
Next cell
End Sub
4. Press the F5 key to run this macro. Then all bold cells are filtered out in selected column range immediately.
Easily filter bold cells with an amazing tool
In this section, we are recommend you a handy tool – the Filter Bold cells utility of Kutools for Excel. With this utility, all bold cells in selected column are filtered immediately with several clicks.
Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.
1. Select the column range you will filter the bold cells, click Kutools Plus> Special Filter > Filter Bold to get it done. See below demo:
If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.
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