I cannot get calc to filter with the following wildcad condition : “Hom*” (Not with the quotes). When I filter with “Home” it would work fine.
Have you selected wildcards in Menu/Tools/Options/LibreOffice calc/Calculate - Enable wildcards in formulas?
By default LO uses regular expressions List of regular expressions more powerfull and complex than wildcards, but when xlsx/xls are opened wildcards are enable.
Edited 20181202
Looks wildcard are only available for functions not for filters, reported a bug:
CALC: Make available wildcards with Standard and Advanced filters like in find & replace.
Thanks for response. Both “Calculate - Enable wildcards in formulas” and “Search criteria = and <> must apply …” are set as recommended for Excel compatibility. No lines are show. When remove wildcards and filter for say Paul, it works. It works in old xls.
Below is the is my test data and filter *a".
Agent	Product	Amount				
Paul	       AA	10				
Jan	       BB	20				
Pieter	CC	30				
Frans	BB	40				
FILTER	
Agent	Product	Amount
a
Agent Product Amount
