Using the basic Excel filter function formula Before we explain how to use the Excel filter function with multiple criteria, it’s important to understand how the Excel filter function formula works.

In this article, I’ll show you how to include AND and OR operations in Excel’s FILTER () function. In several spots, you’ll read “AND and OR,” which is grammatically awkward.

Launch Microsoft Excel and open the spreadsheet you want to filter by multiple colors. Select the column that you want to filter. To select multiple columns, click and drag over the column headers.

You can select multiple rows and enter the formula you want to apply to them one time. This will let you compute the data you want out of your Excel spreadsheet.