FILTER breaks on multi-value and mismatched criteria
FILTER formulas fail with mismatched range errors, or cannot select rows matching any of several chosen values or keywords.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 12 October 2021 · last reported 3 January 2026
What's going wrong
Several users try to pull matching rows with the FILTER function and run into trouble.
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