I have a project timeline laid out in Excel. I'm trying to write an Advanced
Filter that will show me everything that has a "marker" in a specific week's
column, OR is a milestone, AND IS NOT completed.

The criteria below works for everything but the IS NOT COMPLETED part of the
query. What do I have to put under "Status", and in what rows, to filter OUT
those items that are completed?

Milestone? 5-Dec 12-Dec 19-Dec Status
Yes
*
*
*

How do you tag those that are completed in the status column?
Just "Completed"? if so for not completed use

="<Completed"


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"MK" wrote in message
...
I have a project timeline laid out in Excel. I'm trying to write an
Advanced
Filter that will show me everything that has a "marker" in a specific
week's
column, OR is a milestone, AND IS NOT completed.

The criteria below works for everything but the IS NOT COMPLETED part of
the
query. What do I have to put under "Status", and in what rows, to filter
OUT
those items that are completed?

Milestone? 5-Dec 12-Dec 19-Dec Status
Yes
*
*
*

And I have to put that on every line of the criteria, correct? In other
words, (Milestone?=YES AND Status<Completed) OR (12/5/05=anything AND
Status<Completed) OR ...

Well, I have tried that, and it returns NOTHING. I will try again from work
tomorrow, and post the results, just to be sure.
Thanks, for now!

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

How do you tag those that are completed in the status column?
Just "Completed"? if so for not completed use

="<Completed"


--

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"MK" wrote in message
...
I have a project timeline laid out in Excel. I'm trying to write an
Advanced
Filter that will show me everything that has a "marker" in a specific
week's
column, OR is a milestone, AND IS NOT completed.

The criteria below works for everything but the IS NOT COMPLETED part of
the
query. What do I have to put under "Status", and in what rows, to filter
OUT
those items that are completed?

Milestone? 5-Dec 12-Dec 19-Dec Status
Yes
*
*
*

Normally you put it in one place

http://www.contextures.com/xladvfilter01.html


You need to post back with info of your layout, headers, number of columns
and contents and what you want to receive when the filter has been applied

--
Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

(No private emails please)


"MK" wrote in message
...
And I have to put that on every line of the criteria, correct? In other
words, (Milestone?=YES AND Status<Completed) OR (12/5/05=anything AND
Status<Completed) OR ...

Well, I have tried that, and it returns NOTHING. I will try again from
work
tomorrow, and post the results, just to be sure.
Thanks, for now!

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

How do you tag those that are completed in the status column?
Just "Completed"? if so for not completed use

="<Completed"


--

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"MK" wrote in message
...
I have a project timeline laid out in Excel. I'm trying to write an
Advanced
Filter that will show me everything that has a "marker" in a specific
week's
column, OR is a milestone, AND IS NOT completed.

The criteria below works for everything but the IS NOT COMPLETED part
of
the
query. What do I have to put under "Status", and in what rows, to
filter
OUT
those items that are completed?

Milestone? 5-Dec 12-Dec 19-Dec Status
Yes
*
*
*

Okay, I'll try to lay this out. The problem now is, using the Completed
criteria you gave me (and that _is_ how I indicated if they're completed), I
don't get lines returned that have NOTHING in the STATUS column.
Here's my timeline (I left off the row/column letters/numbers):

Event Milestone? Start End Status 11/28/05
12/5/05 12/12/05
Item 1 12/5 12/9 Completed
XXXXX
Item 2 12/5 12/16 In Process
XXXXX XXXXX
Item 3 12/5 1/13
XXXXX XXXXX
Item 4 Yes 3/31 4/5

(Item 4 would have x's way out in the columns for those future dates.)

My criteria could be JUST

Status
="<Completed"
Status

And all that would be returned would be the IN PROCESS item (#2).

What I REALLY want is criteria like
Milestone? 12/5 Status
Yes ="<Completed"
* ="<Completed"

to indicate that I want to see anything that's (NOT completed) AND (that is
supposed to occur any time during the week of 12/5 OR that is a milestone
(occurring any time).)

When I run that last query, though, I still DO NOT SEE BLANK STATUS items.
I really don't want to have to change all my blanks to NOT STARTED, but that
_does_ work. Why isn't it returning NULL values?

Thanks - hope this is readable!

I really can't see how your layout is but ="<Completed"
will return everything that does not have "Completed" both "In Process" and
blanks in the Status column so presumably the problem lies in your criteria
when using the dates and milestones

1. I notice that you are using 12/5, do you realise that if you just type in
m/d it will always default to current year?

If you want to start with 12/05/05 as a starting date and milestone yes and
not completed you need something like this for the criteria

Milestone Start Status
Yes ="=12/05/05" <Completed


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom




"MK" wrote in message
...
Okay, I'll try to lay this out. The problem now is, using the Completed
criteria you gave me (and that _is_ how I indicated if they're completed),
I
don't get lines returned that have NOTHING in the STATUS column.
Here's my timeline (I left off the row/column letters/numbers):

Event Milestone? Start End Status 11/28/05
12/5/05 12/12/05
Item 1 12/5 12/9 Completed
XXXXX
Item 2 12/5 12/16 In Process
XXXXX XXXXX
Item 3 12/5 1/13
XXXXX XXXXX
Item 4 Yes 3/31 4/5

(Item 4 would have x's way out in the columns for those future dates.)

My criteria could be JUST

Status
="<Completed"
Status

And all that would be returned would be the IN PROCESS item (#2).

What I REALLY want is criteria like
Milestone? 12/5 Status
Yes ="<Completed"
* ="<Completed"

to indicate that I want to see anything that's (NOT completed) AND (that
is
supposed to occur any time during the week of 12/5 OR that is a milestone
(occurring any time).)

When I run that last query, though, I still DO NOT SEE BLANK STATUS items.
I really don't want to have to change all my blanks to NOT STARTED, but
that
_does_ work. Why isn't it returning NULL values?

Thanks - hope this is readable!