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How to search for string in Excel



There’s quite a lot of ways to do this in Excel, using Macro or Excel formula will be able to get the desired output.

Macro I think is good if the number of rows is not so large, but if the number of rows is quite large then a buffer overflow error might occur.

Formula can take quite large of data and able to deliver the result as expected.

ISNUMBER is a function that can check whether value is a number or not, the function itself tells what the formula will be doing.

Adding a search function to ISNUMBER then it can be used to search for a string with in a cell or the specified range in the formula.

Example below shows how ISNUMBER can be used to search for a specified string whether it exists or not. The position of the string doesn’t matter as long as the string exist within the cell, the formula will return TRUE, otherwise it will return FALSE if the string does not exist.

Here’s the example:

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("search string", A5))

The “search string” is the string that will be search on Cell A5.

A5 can be a single cell or a specified custom range.

Here’s the sample screen shot in Excel:

ISNUMBER Formula:




Result of ISNUMBER Formula:

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