Dan Davison <davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi Russell,
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Russell Adams wrote:
>>
>>> Fellow Org'ers,
>>>
>>> I adore the text spreadsheet, however there's one feature Excel
>>> provides which I don't have in org.
>>>
>>> I often use Excel for "lists", where I can sort or narrow the data by
>>> specific criteria from a larger list.
>>>
>>> Would it be feasible to "narrow" a table by criteria on a specific
>>> field in between separators? Ie: only display those cells in field A
>>> if they are > 2, or if field B matches "Pick Me!".
>
> How about keeping a master table containing all the information, and
> then generating narrowed views as separate tables? The babel way to do
> this would be to have a block function "filter-table" (provided below)
> and then call it where needed:

This is fantastic. Thanks, Dan!

- Matt


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