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You are learning Sorting and Filtering in MS Excel

How to filter by cell color or font formatting in Excel?

While Excel doesn't directly filter by cell color or font formatting itself, you can achieve this with a two-step process:

1. Identify cells based on formatting:
- Manual check: If you have a small dataset, you can visually identify cells with the desired formatting.
- Conditional Formatting Rules (complex formatting): If you have complex formatting rules, you can't directly filter by them. However, you can create a helper column with a formula like `=GET.CELL.COLOR(A1)` (replace A1 with your actual cell reference) to return the color code. Then filter based on the color code in this helper column.
2. Filter based on identified cells:
- Once you have identified cells with the desired formatting (manual check or helper column), you can filter by cell color:
- Click the filter arrow on the desired column header.
- Choose "Filter by Color" and select the specific color you want to filter by.
- You can similarly filter by font color using the "Font Color" option in the filter dropdown menu.

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