Microsoft® Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition

Locating Information That Matches Multiple Criteria

Filter By Selection, Filter For <input>, and Filter By Form are quick and easy ways to hone in on the information you need, as long as your filter criteria are fairly simple. But suppose The Garden Company needs to locate all the orders shipped to Midwest states between specific dates by either of two shippers. When you need to search a single table for records that meet multiple criteria or that require complex expressions as criteria, you can use the Advanced Filter/Sort command.

You work with the Advanced Filter/Sort command in the design grid. You can use this design grid to work with only one table.

Tip

If you create a simple query in the filter window that you think you might like to use again, ...