Advanced Filter method

    Hello everyone, I am a newbie in this forum. Hoping to get help from all the experienced users here :).

    I am facing a problem with AdvancedFilter method in my code. There's no error, just not working the way I expected. My data has a column 'Direction' which stores East, West, North,.... When I give the criteria as Direction - "North", it returns all rows with direction, "North East" and "North West" in addition to "North". Same happens with South. How can I get just the rows with North? Thanks.

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    Either format the criteria cell as text and enter:

    =North

    in it, or use this formula:

    ="=North"


    By default an advanced filter treats a text criterion as 'begins with'.

    Rory
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