Filter issue on Open Office

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chnordiste -  
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Hello,
I have a problem and I would like to have your help...
I have Open Office and Excel...
In a document on Excel, I set up filters to select a specific person.
In Excel, no problem, when I select my filter, I have all the names appearing in the dropdown list
In Open Office, I have the filter but it is empty, it just says "All - Standard - top 10" but no names...

I performed the operation in Open Office, which is Data - Filter - uncheck AutoFilter
and then did the reverse operation: Data - Filter - check AutoFilter
But nothing, still the same result..

Does anyone have an idea of the problem encountered and if so, can you help me????

Thank you very much in advance

Sab
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julie frisée Posted messages 1 Status Membre 1
 
Hello,

I have a problem and I would really appreciate it if someone could help me...

After reformatting my laptop, I was installed Open Office (I used to use Word). I can open most of my Word documents except for those I created on my desktop computer. I'm using Word 2003 on that computer. When I try to open them with Open Office on my laptop and select the appropriate filter: Word 2003 XML, it opens my documents blank; the text doesn't appear...

Should I download another version of Open Office? Or other filters?...

If anyone is able to help me, I would be very grateful...
Thank you in advance.
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OOoForum Posted messages 3871 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   965
 
Why are you posting after a filter issue on the spreadsheet?

Are you sure it’s MS-Word 2003? Couldn’t it be 2007?

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doublem93 Posted messages 349 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   72
 
Otherwise, go to the OpenOffice website and download an add-on called Autofilter. This add-on, once installed, allows you to create filters just like in Excel, meaning you can have multiple filters in the same workbook and you don't need to select your entire data range.

However, be careful with the AND and OR filters, which require the special filter.
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chnordiste
 
Indeed, normally filters in Excel work with Open Office, but on my file, there is indeed a filter, but it only filters the first row, which is the header... I only have the following options: "All - Standard - Top 10".

Even if I restart creating my filters in Open Office... selecting the entire table

It's strange, isn't it?
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ksign
 
weird, yeah!
have you tried applying the auto filter by selecting the row where your field is located?
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chnordiste
 
I took the test, still the same problem...

I did another one on a different document... and there it works...
I think my problem comes from my spreadsheet...

I'm going to transfer my data to another document... I think that's the best solution...

Thank you for your help
But what I experienced is still strange...

A thousand thanks to you Ksign

Chnordiste
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Seb042fr
 
Often faced with the same problem, I just discovered that the autoFilter is based on the data selected at the time of its activation ...
Specifically, in Excel, you just need to select the header row of the columns for the autoFilter to set itself based on all the values contained in each of the columns ... In OOo, you have to select the rows you want to include ... Confusing at first, it should provide interesting flexibility when you only want to work on a part of the data ... But everyone will have their own opinion ...

Séb
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bsalvert
 
To summarize, when you are on your Ooo sheet, you go to Data, define the range, you create an area that contains all your data, then you go to data-filter-auto filter.
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kerisa
 
Hello,
I am currently experiencing the same problem. I will try what you suggest, bsalvert.
But what is 000? Is it Open Office?
Have a nice day everyone.
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Curly
 
For the auto filter problem, it's not quite like that. The auto filter in OOo behaves like in Excel, except if there are empty cells between the filled ones, then you have to do the manipulation as explained above. A second difference is that empty or non-empty fields are not proposed either in the auto filter list; you have to use the standard filter and select empty or non-empty to search based on those criteria.
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plaoureux
 
Dan OO, just take the standard filter and ask for the condition cell = value: = "empty"
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ksign
 
I opened an Excel file in OpenOffice, applied the auto-filter and it works correctly...
No response...
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