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stands for
"vertical
lookup." In
Excel, this
means the
act of
looking up
data vertic
ally across
a
spreadshee
t, using the
spreadshee
t's columns -
- and a
unique
identifier
within those
columns --
as the
basis of
your
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The formula
always
searches to
the right.
 You
can do
as
follows
to
create
your
own
search
box by
using
the
Conditi
onal
Format
ting
functio
n in
Excel.
1.
Select
the
range
with
data
you
need
to
When search
conducting by the
search
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box,
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in Excel, click C
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entering the
text you
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find, the Ne
selecting w
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you can Rule di
either alog
click Find box,
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through all need
matches or to:
click Find
All to see
all matches.

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formul
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deter
mine
which
cells
to
format
option
in
the Sel
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the For
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where
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formul
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the For
mat bu
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by specify
a
selected highlig
workshe hted
color
et for the
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ed
value;
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to finding
text within
the entire
workbook,
you can
individually
select what
worksheets
you want to
search. 2.4)
Highlight Click
each works the OK
heet tab button
you want to .
search by
holding
down
the Ctrl
key and
clicking
each tab
you would
like to
search.

Notes:
 1. In
the
formul
a,
$B$2
is a
blank
Once each cell
worksheet you
you want to need
search has to use
it as a
been
search
highlighted,
box,
perform a
and A5
Find, and all is the
highlighted first
worksheets cell of
will be your
searched. selecte
d
range
you
need
to
search
values
2. The
formul
a is not
case-
sensitiv
e.
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the
search
box is
create
d,
when
typing
search
criteria
into the
search
box B2
and
press
the
Enter
key, all
matche
d
values
in the
specifi
ed
range
are
search
For
example,
let's say
your
worksheet
names are
the
defaults,
"Sheet1,"
"Sheet2,"
and
"Sheet3".
You have
information
in each
worksheet,
and you
want to
search for
"computer"
in Sheet1
and Sheet3.
To do this,
you would
follow these
steps.

1. Select the
Sheet1 sheet
tab if it is not
already
selected.
2. Hold
down the
Ctrl key on
the
keyboard.
3. While
continuing
to hold
down the
Ctrl key,
click the
Sheet3 tab.
4. After
Sheet1 and
Sheet3 are
highlighted
let go of the
Ctrl key and
press Ctrl+F
to open the
Find and
Replace
box.

5. In the
Find and
Replace box
make sure
that "Sheet"
is selected
in the Within
box and
choose
either the
Find Next or
Find All
button.

Additiona
l
informati
on
See
our Excel, Fi
nd,
and search
definitions
for further
information
and related
links.
Microsoft
Excel help and
support.
We supply
the array
constant
{0,1,2,3,4,
5,6,7,8,9}
in
the find_te
xt argume
nt of the
SEARCH
function,
so that the
formula
searches
for each
element of
the array
within the
original
string and
returns
their
The MIN
function
processes
the
resultant
array and
returns the
smallest
value,
which
correspon
ds to the
position in
of the first
digit in the
original
string.
Additionally, we
use a special
construction
(A2&"01234567
89") to
concatenate
every possible
number with the
original string. In
situations when
a certain
number in the
array constant is
not found within
the source
string, this
construction
acts
like IFERROR for
cing the formula
to return a
"fake" position
equal to the
string length +1
or more chars.
As the result, if
the original
string does not
To make
things
easier to
understan
d, let's see
how the
formula
works out
for a
specific
cell, say
A2. That
cell
contains
the text
string
"ECDAA-
05", for
which the
SEARCH
function
returns the
0 is the
1st eleme
nt of the
array
constant
and the
7th chara
cter in
the
original
string,
therefore
the first
item of
the
resulting
array is
"7".
5 is the
6th eleme
nt of the
array
constant
and the
8th chara
cter in
the
original
string, so
the sixth
item of
the
resulting
array is
"8".
 No other
item of
the array
constant
is found
in cell A2,
and
therefore
the other
8 items of
the
resulting
array
represent
the
positions
of
correspo
nding
digits in
the
concaten
Since 7 is
the
smallest
value in
the
resulting
array, the
MIN
function
returns it,
so we get
the
position of
the first
digit (0) in
original
string.

Formu
la 2.
Pull
numb
er
from
the
right
of a
string
Another
way to
extract
number
from the
end of a
string is by
using this
generic
formula:

RIGHT(c
ell ,SUM
(LEN(ce
ll ) -
LEN(SUB
STITUTE
(cell ,
{"0","1
","2","
3","4",
"5","6"
,"7","8
","9"},
""))))
With the
original
text string
in A2, you
enter the
below
formula in
B2 or any
other
empty cell
in the
same row,
and then
copy it
down the
column: