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    Advanced filter when column values are "True" and "False"

    I recently ran into an issue with some code I was running that used an advanced filter to copy data from one workbook to the other. I assumed it was bad code somewhere but I discovered that manually recreating and executing the advanced filter resulted in the same issue. I am trying to filter on a column that only holds True/False values but it will always return 0 entries. I assume that because the adv filter itself uses True/False, there is some conflict there but I could not find anyone else with the same issue. I'm hoping someone has an easy workaround for this issue. I pasted a simple example below. Thanks!

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    Re: Advanced filter when column values are "True" and "False"

    Picture is nice but no one can work on it. Upload a small samplw workbook, pls.
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    Re: Advanced filter when column values are "True" and "False"

    Orginal post is edited to include workbook. Thanks.

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    Re: Advanced filter when column values are "True" and "False"

    It's really hard to do exactly like you want. But here is a suggestion.
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    Re: Advanced filter when column values are "True" and "False"

    I think that I found the problem. I eliminated the = signs from the AAA and TRUE. When TRUE or FALSE are used as the criteria, they are all upper case. If the True and False in the data are changed to upper case, the filter works.
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    Re: Advanced filter when column values are "True" and "False"

    That's a really interesting quirk. Thanks for your responses guys.

    The issue I have is I'm pulling data from another workbook that will always show "True" and "False" with the lowercase letters so it will undoubtedly add some complexity to my code to replace those. The source file is massive so it will add some time to the process if I need to replace all those values each time (about 300k instances of True/False) but thankfully, I control the source file so I could potentially add it to the refresh cycle each morning.

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    Re: Advanced filter when column values are "True" and "False"

    Give this a try. Click the "Filter / Unfilter" button.

    You can also use the "*"'s as wildcards so it will pick-up any string with "True" in it.


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    Re: Advanced filter when column values are "True" and "False"

    Thanks for the feedback.

    I also found out that you can use Find and Replace to make the replacements that you need.

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