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  • 5/16/2025
Discover how to do partial match with FILTER function in Excel.

The FILTER function in allows you to extract data based on specific criteria. In many cases, you may want to perform a partial match using FILTER, meaning you want to extract data that partially matches a certain word or phrase.

Formulas featured in the video.

Filter Partial Match String

Filter Commodity Name Containing "green"
Looking For=FILTER(A2:A76,ISNUMBER(SEARCH("green",A2:A76)))

Filter Commodity Name Containing "green" & "chilli"
=FILTER(A2:A76,ISNUMBER(SEARCH("green",A2:A76))*ISNUMBER(SEARCH("chilli",A2:A76)))

Filter Partial Match String (complete row)
=FILTER(A2:D76,ISNUMBER(SEARCH("green",A2:A76))*ISNUMBER(SEARCH("chilli",A2:A76)))



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00:00Using the Excel standard data filter tool, you can filter based on say for example
00:04greens and chili like this. But you can see that the dry chili should never be
00:10there because this is an end clause. Dry chili doesn't have the word green in it.
00:14So the way to mitigate is to use filter function. This is the standard formula
00:18that you use to filter only text with green in it. Now if you want to display
00:25a data set with both green and chili, this is the formula that you use. Just take a
00:32note on how I'm using asterisk to denote an N logic. If you need OR, you just put a
00:38plus in here like this and you will display OR. Now if you want to create the
00:42whole data set, all you have to do is to replace this A with D. It will show you
00:48the complete data set for any commodities that's green and chili in it.

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