Autofilter misses last line

[Guest]

I have a 2075 row database that I autofilter by technical area
(i.e. Data/Filter/Autofilter on technical area column header).

The filter works fine, except no matter what technical area I select from
autofilter pulldown, the last row always displays.

I have double checked that there are no empty cells in the last row.
I have also verified that there are no empty cells in the last row by
writing a short macro that starts on column A of the last row, then xltoRight
(i.e. Range("a2075", Range("a2075").End(xlToRight)).Select does indeed
select all the cells in the data set)

Any ideas why the last row doesn't my autofilter apply to the last row?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Excel tries to help by using colors.

If you filter a field, then that arrow will turn blue.

Your row numbers in that filtered range will turn blue if the data is filtered.

My bet is that last row number is still black.

That means that this row isn't part of the filtered range.

I'd remove the filter and select the whole range and reapply the filter.

 

[Guest]

You're right that the 2075th row is not blue.
However, even if I hand-select that data base (including row 2075) before
selecting Autofilter, it still keeps row 2075 no matter what technical area I
select.

 

[Bill Ridgeway]

Richard,

I have also seen a similar problem where the spreadsheet will sort all bar
the last few lines. If you insert data within the spreadsheet it will be
included with anything like sorting. However, data added to the end is not
always included. I've got round it by changing the print area (Click on
<Insert><Name><Define><Print_Area>). I've not had this problem too many
time so I haven't been able to study it so I'm not sure what causes the
problem or why that should work and there may be a better way out of it.

Hope this helps.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

 

[Guest]

Bill,
Adjusting the print area didn't help.
However, when I selected all the data plus one blank row, it did include the
'real' last row (2075) in the filtering. Only problem is that it now as a
filter option listed as 'blanks' - which is not too bad of a problem.

 

[Pete_UK]

Richard,

having done that, you could now highlight row 2076 (the blank row) and
Edit | Delete to remove it. That should reset your filter range so that
you do not get "Blanks" listed in the drop-down.

I suspect that you might have two cells somewhere that are merged
together - Excel thinks that there are only 2074 cells (and therefore
rows) in the filter range.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Dave Peterson]

I've only seen a couple of worksheets that had this problem--that the last row
wouldn't be included in the autofilter range.

My workaround was to add something to a cell under that row. Select the whole
range--including that dummy row and apply data|filter|autofilter to that
extended range.

Then I'd clear the contents of that dummy cell.

Yes, I usually ended up with an extra blank line in my autofilter range.

But I could live with that.

You're right that the 2075th row is not blue.
However, even if I hand-select that data base (including row 2075) before
selecting Autofilter, it still keeps row 2075 no matter what technical area I
select.

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

When the last line of data isn't included in the filtered range, it's
often because the row contains a SUBTOTAL formula.