Since most of the criteria ranges examples discussed in this tutorial are going to include various formulas, let's begin with defining the essential rules to set them up properly. Setting up a formula-based criteria range Filter rows that match or don't match items in a list.Filter for matches and differences between 2 columns.Filter rows with blank / non-blank cells.Filter values above or below average in a column.Advanced Filter criteria range examples.How to set up a formula-based criteria range.Now that you know the basics, let's have a look at more complex criteria range examples that may prove helpful for your work. In our previous article, we discussed different aspects of Excel Advanced Filter and how to use it to filter rows with AND as well as OR logic. The tutorial shows how to use Advanced Filter in Excel and provides a number of non-trivial criteria range examples to create a case-sensitive filter, find matches and differences between two columns, extract records that match a smaller list, and more.