Tip of the Day | Tuesday 11 August 2026

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Select, Hide, or Delete Rows or Columns Based on Custom Criteria...

This tool provides a fast and flexible way to select, hide, or delete entire rows or columns based on specific criteria, making it a powerful alternative or complement to Excel's AutoFilter.

You can apply the following criteria to select, hide, or remove entire rows or columns:

  • between
  • not between
  • equal to
  • not equal to
  • greater than
  • less than
  • greater than or equal to
  • less than or equal to
  • like (text, with use of wildcard characters)
  • not like (text, with use of wildcard characters)
  • duplicate values (you can choose to keep the first value)
  • unique values
  • odd rows
  • even rows
  • every n'th row number
  • odd columns
  • even columns
  • every n'th column number
  • empty cells
  • completely empty rows
  • completely empty columns

Additional options:

  • You can choose to make the search case-sensitive for text, duplicate, and unique value criteria.
  • Hidden cells are ignored, except when searching for duplicate or unique values.

Starting this tool

Specify a Keyboard Shortcut: ASAP Utilities  › My Tools & Shortcuts › Manage My Tools & Shortcuts...

Example screenshot: 1 Conditional row and column select hide or delete (Here's the English version.)
1 Conditional row and column select hide or delete

Tip:Alt+P for the previous tool.