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Quickly filter all cells which containing formula in a specified column

Author: Xiaoyang Last Modified: 2024-12-13

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If there are both formulas and values populated into a column of your worksheet, now, you would like to filter all formula cells to check or edit as you need. How could you filter all of formula cells without checking one by one? If you have Kutools for Excel, with its Filter Formula feature, you can quickly filter all formula cells in a selected column with only one click.

Filter all cells which containing formulas in a specified column

Filter all cells which containing formulas and filled font or background color in a specified column


Filter all cells which containing formulas in a specified column

To filter all formula cells in a selected column, please do as follows:

1. Select the column which contains formulas you want to filter, and then click Kutools Plus > Special Filter > Filter Formula, see screenshot:

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2. Then a prompt box is popped out to remind you how many cells contain formulas in the specific column, see screenshot:

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3. And then click OK, all cells contain formulas have been filtered out, see screenshot:

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Filter all cells which containing formulas and filled font or background color in a specified column

To highlight or shade the results with font or background color after filtering, you can go to the Special Filter dialog to set the formatting.

1. Select the column which contains formulas you want to filter, and then click Kutools Plus > Special Filter > Special Filter, see screenshot:

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2. In the Special Filter dialog box:

(1.) Select Format option in the Filter rules section box;

(2.) Choose Formula from the drop down list;

(3.) Then specify a font color or background color for the filtered results in the Processing of results section.

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Note: If you check Select entire row option, the entire rows will be selected after filtering.

3. Then click Ok button, and a prompt box will pop out to remind you how many formula cells are found, see screenshot:

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4. Finally, click OK button, all cells with formulas have been filtered, and the filtered results are highlighted with the font or background color as you specified. See screenshot:

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Demo: Filter all cells which containing formula

 
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