Using ctrl+F ("find"), it's impossible to find cells that contain a plain asterisk. Any Ideas on how to do this? Posted by Barrie Davidson on August 29, 2001 12:28 PM Use the tilde(~) before the wildcard character to search for. For example, if you want to find "*" using CTR...
PressCTRL+Fand enter asterisk (*) in thesearch box. If you clickFind Next, no results will be displayed. Method 1 – Find the * Character Using the Find and Replace Feature Steps: PressCTRL+F. Enter~*inFind what:. ClickFind All. ...
If you want to find an actual question mark or asterisk, type a tilde (~) before the character. It returns a #VALUE! error if the searched string is not found in the text. Excel SEARCH Function – Examples Here are four examples of using Excel SEARCH function: ...
4.The first instance of find text is returned if within text has several instances. For instance, the first l character in the word hello is located at position 3, which is returned by FIND(l, hello) as an example. 5.The Excel FIND formula delivers the first character in the search st...
Method 1 – Use the Find and Replace Feature to replace the Asterisk (*) STEPS: Go to the Home tab. Click Find & Select in Editing. Click Find. In the Find and Replace dialog box, enter“*” in Find what:. In Replace with:, enter ‘,’ and click Replace All. This is the out...
2. Search with wildcard characters Unlike FIND, the Excel SEARCH function acceptswildcard charactersin the find_text argument: A question mark (?) matches one character, and An asterisk (*) matches any series of characters. To see how it works on real data, consider the following example: ...
In the above formula, instead of using the lookup value as is, it is flanked on both sides with the Excel wildcard character asterisk (*) – “*”&C2&”*”This tells excel that it needs to look for any text that contains the word in C2. It could have any number of characters ...
Problem in our first and second attempt is that, Excel is treating the asterisk character as wildcard character and giving the result based on that. But, we want to search wildcard character as the normal text. So, we need to makeExcelunderstand that, we want to search asterisk as the ...
Precedes an asterisk or question mark to be used as a literal character In the following example, we are searching for the substring “cent” regardless of whether it appears at the beginning, middle, or end of a text string. =SEARCH(“cent*”,A2) The SEARCH function returns the position...
If omitted, Excel looks for an exact match. 0: exact match -1: closest smaller match if exact match not found 1: closest larger match if exact match not found 2: wildcard character match search_mode (optional) is a setting to search from first to last or reverse order, or to ...