How do I see more than 1000 autofilter drop down items

[Craig]

Hi

I have a long list of over 12,000 individual company names...yet when I
apply an autofilter to the list and click the down arrow besides company
name, it only lists the first 1000 items so I cant scroll down and see all
the companys in the drop down list Do you know why this is so? Got any
ideas on how I can list all of the companys in the drop down list?
thank you very much!!

Craig

 

[Bob I]

Office 2007

 

[Conan Kelly]

Bob I,

Do you know what the maimum number of items listed in the AutoFilter's
drop-down's is for XL 2007?

Thanks again for all of your help,

Conan

 

[Bob I]

10,000
http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2005/11/01/487920.aspx

 

[Gord Dibben]

Craig

In versions earlier than 2007 the limit is 1000 items will be shown.

You can use a custom like "contains" or "equal to" etc.

See Debra Dalglesih's site for other workarounds.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlautofilter02.html#Limits


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP