XL98: Row Headings Are Blue After You Move a Filtered List
Article ID: 177530
Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q177530
SYMPTOMS
When you filter a list and then move the cells that contain the data you
filtered, the row headings for the cells you moved appear in a blue font
(as if you filtered the moved cells). This problem occurs even though
Microsoft Excel no longer uses the filter criteria.
CAUSE
This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:
- You use the Autofilter command to filter a list in place.
-and-
- You move the list you filtered by using a drag-and-drop operation.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, remove the filter criterion before you move
the list. This workaround does not affect the results of the data you are
moving; the filter criterion is normally lost once you move the data.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem
and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it
becomes available.
MORE INFORMATION
Row headings are the numbers to the left of the first column. The font
color of these numbers is blue when you filter a list in place.
REFERENCES
For more information about the AutoFilter command, click the Index tab in
Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Ways to find values
in a list by using filters" topic.
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