That sounds like an interesting spreadsheet. I'd be interested in that myself. For something like that, the Find menu option would work, but you might have better luck finding who you're interested in buying putting filters on the column headers and using them to narrow down the rows to look at. Brent
On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 11:19 AM, Frank Wimberly<[email protected]> wrote: Thanks, Brent. Stanford published a spreadsheet with about 200,000 researchers. Each row contains name, institution name, country, etc. I want to be able to search for the data about a given individual, the people associated with an institution, etc. I used to program macros in VBA but I only did it for a few months and that was about 15 years ago. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 9:03 AM Brent Auble <[email protected]> wrote: If you just want to find something, using the Find option from the menu will work and it should give you the option of searching within the current sheet or across all sheets in the workbook. If there are multiple results, it should pop up a docked window at the bottom of the spreadsheet to show everything it's found. However, if you want to do it programmatically, I'm not sure if any of the built-in functions (formulas) will handle that well, mostly because of the complexity of handling multiple results. Excel functions try really hard to just return single values so they can populate just the cell they're in. There are some exceptions, where a formula will run and put its results in multiple other cells, but those are uncommon because they can indiscriminately overwrite existing cell values. The is likely a capability in the Visual Basic language used for scripting Excel to handle searching, but it's not something I've used before (despite having done a good bit of Excel VBA in the past). What are you trying to accomplish? Thanks, Brent On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 10:42 AM, Frank Wimberly<[email protected]> wrote: I used to know Excel pretty well but that was decades ago. I want to find a given string, say "Wimberly" in a large spreadsheet. How do I do that simply? FIND function wants to provide the location within a larger string of a substring. I want something like the Unix "grep' command. -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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