Add ability to create more than one filter in a Text Area at a time

Adding items to the Text Area is currently a tedious -- one at a time -- process.  If I want to add three filters to a text area, I do the following...

1. Toggle into edit mode

2. Click the add filter button

3. Minimize EVERY SINGLE TABLE UNTIL I FIND THE ONE I NEED.  If this is a large project, this could be 20 - 30 mouse clicks.  

4. Select the filter and click ok.

5. Scroll down thru the list of columns until I see what I need.  Again, this takes a long time, especially if a table has hundreds of columns.  Heck, anything over 30 is annoying.

6. Close....and then do it all again...over and over and over. 

This process is incredibly inefficient.