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Can "Advanced Filter" feature search for a person's name across MULTIPLE columns?

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    Can "Advanced Filter" feature search for a person's name across MULTIPLE columns?

    I have an Excel index to organize information for a collection of photographs. See the attached sample worksheet.

    Because one photo may have more than one person in it, I have created multiple columns for their names (Person1, Person2, Person3, etc.)

    I want to be able to filter the spreadsheet to display only those rows that contain the name of a particular person. My problem is that the person's name may be located across MULTIPLE possible columns (Person1, Person2, Person3, etc.).

    Can the "Advanced Filter" feature be successfully be used for this? If not, is there another way to accomplish this?

    THANK YOU!!
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    Re: Can "Advanced Filter" feature search for a person's name across MULTIPLE columns?

    This is a duplicate thread, and you are only allowed one thread per topic on the forum. Continue in your other thread, where you have an answer.

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    Re: Can "Advanced Filter" feature search for a person's name across MULTIPLE columns?

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