Natural Language Date Filters
Recently, one of my viewers asked me to go into greater detail in demonstrating how the new Natural Language Date Filters work in Excel. Natural Language Filters were introduced in Excel 2007 and they are a great tool to use! Now, instead of writing complex formulas as criteria in Advanced Filters, you can simply click, “Yesterday” to see all of the records from the previous day!
Of course, you must actually have records in your data set for that date!
The Natural Language Date Filters are related, by position, to TODAY(). The TODAY() Function is a “Volatile Function” that returns the value for the current date as found in your computer systems internal clock. The result of the TODAY() Function will change each day. And so, by definition, will the result for a “Yesterday” filter!
Filter for Specific Date
There are several methods that you can use to filter for a specific date or range of dates. One method that I demonstrate in this tutorial is the “Custom Date” dialog box.
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