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Advanced Filter Function Exclude

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Schlunggi

Electrical
Dec 30, 2009
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I am trying to exclude lines which only contain " - " Space,dash (Char 32),space. I have tried just about any combination with <> (not equal) but excel is ignoring it.
If I use ="= - " it will filter only these lines, but I can not exclude them. Has anybody a solution?
 
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As pmover said, your file is inaccessible.

If your doing this with a macro, I'd do something like this:
1. Have a cell in your spreadsheet (e.g., A1)with " - "
2. In your macro make a variable refer to that cell (e.g., A$=Range("A1")
3. Have a condition when your data in a cell = A$

 
It seems like the ="<> - " gets rid of all, but one of the ones with just a dash. The one that it misses doesn't have the space after the dash.
 
Seems to work fine in Excel 2007. .

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Great, this is the solution. Yes, the one which is not filtered needs a space after the dash as all others do.

Thanks for the tip.
 
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