Advanced Filter: contains specific text

AGrillini

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  1. 2013
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I put together an advanced filter to only show rows that match my selection from a drop-down menu. I used function =IF(E6=“”,”*”,E6) and recorded a macro to extract data from one sheet and display in my filtered table on another sheet. It works well, but I’ve run into a wall.

I have some cells with multiple text values. For example, under header “Provinces” I have some cells with “Ontario, Quebec, Alberta” because this row applies to 3 provinces. Using my filter, I can find this row by searching for Ontario because it is at the beginning of the string. However, if I select Quebec or Alberta this row is ommited. How can I tweak my formula to search for the text regardless of its position in the cell?
 

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Since advanced filters work by default as though there's a wildcard at the end of the text, you could just use:

="*"&E6
 
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