Filter by font color, cell color, or icon sets

Applies To
Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac Excel 2024 for Mac Excel 2021 for Mac

Important

Some of the content in this topic may not be applicable to some languages and some filter options may not be available in Excel for the web.

You can quickly filter data based on visual criteria, such as font color, cell color, or icon sets. And you can filter whether you have formatted cells, applied cell styles, or used conditional formatting.

  1. In a range of cells or a table column, click a cell that contains the cell color, font color, or icon that you want to filter by.

  2. On the Data tab, click Filter.

    Screenshot that shows that on the Data tab, select Filter.

  3. Click the arrow in the column that contains the content that you want to filter.

  4. Under Filter, in the By color pop-up menu, select Cell Color, Font Color, or Cell Icon, and then click the criteria.

    Screenshot that shows an example of filtering by cell color.

See Also

Use data bars, color scales, and icon sets to highlight data

Filter a list of data

Apply, create, or remove a cell style