If your company is working with a large list in an Excel spreadsheet, take advantage of the program's built-in filter customization tools to limit the number of rows included in your filter results.

Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.

How to format duplicate values in Excel Finding duplicates in a single column or across multiple columns is a bit more difficult than filtering for an entire record.

You can filter data in Excel based on either certain parameters in columns or over the whole sheet, and you can later unfilter the sheet.