How to move highlighted cell to a new column

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elaine216

I got a huge database of fruit related terms such as :

apple
apple pie
apple ipod
apple computer
banana milkshake
kiwi
kiwi map
kiwi maple syrup
orange juice
orange mobile

.... etc.

I want to filter out all the non edibles such as ipod, computer and
mobile.

I used conditional formatting to highlight all the non-edibles at the
moment, and terms such as ipod, computer, mobile, map and maple syrup
were highlighted.

However the kiwi maple syrup is edible, and i dont want it to be
highlighted. But you cant manually check every cell if you got like
10000 rows (just an example).

Is there a way to copy all the highlighted keywords to a new column so
that it will be easier to check again? or is there a way to just
automatically copy all the cells (with the keyword)to a new column?

Thanks.
 
D

Dave Peterson

Conditional formatting looks pretty, but it doesn't help much when you want to
manipulate the data.

I'd insert another column and use it as an indicator (Y or N)

Then with some sorting/filtering (like Contains IPOD), it might be able to mark
lots of cells at once.
 

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