Opening Built-In Custom AutoFilter Dialog Box Programmatically

[nkjsterk]

Hello,

I would like to know if it possible to open the built-In Custom
AutoFilter dialog box programmatically.

Manually I get it through selecting a filtered field, followed by
choosing "Custom..." in the pull down list. The automatic solution is
not in the help files as far as I know.

By the way,

Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFilter).Show

and

Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFilterAdvanced).Show

are not the one I exactly need. Is there a workaround?

Thanks in advance,

Nico Sterk

 

[Guest]

The menu you see when you select an autofiltered column is not one of the
Excel Dialogs, as you note. I don't know how to activate that menu
programatically, but you can set the autofilter criteria automatically
through the Range.AutoFilter method - see help for details. If you want to
make this interactive you may need to build your own custom dialog (userform)
for the user to enter the criteria.

 

[Aijik]

Try this

Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro "FILTER?(1)"

where 1 is the number of column

or for a predefined value:

Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro "FILTER?(1, ""sometext"")"

 

[justincase]

Hi. For anyone else googling the answer to this, here it is for advanced filter dialog:
Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFilterAdvanced).Show

For autofilter, you can enable the filter on selected cells with
Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFilter).Show
this will give a 400 error if nothing valid is selected.
Keyboard shortcut Ctrl-shift-L could be used instead.

this applies to excel 365, probably other versions too.

Hope this helps
gazzat5