This illustrated walk-through (with a demo worksheet) shows how easy it is to create a multi-column search solution using validation lists and conditional formatting. Excel offers numerous ways to ...

Excel spreadsheets are a daunting affair for many. And indeed, when you are confronting dozens of rows and columns comprising hundreds if not thousands of cells filled with all sorts of data, it's ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

This tutorial will explain how to find a value in an Excel column using the Find function in VBA. Excel will highlight all of the cells that correspond to your search. How to search data using the ...