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How To Use: SEARCH Function

How To Use: SEARCH Function

The SEARCH function is used to get the location of one text string inside another. SEARCH returns the position of the first character of find_text inside within_text. Unlike FIND, SEARCH allows the use of wildcards and is not case-sensitive.

Syntax for SEARCH Function

=SEARCH(find_text,within_text,[start_num])

The SEARCH function has the following arguments:

find_text: Required. The text that you want to find.

within_text: Required. The text in which you want to search for the value of the find_text argument.

start_num: This argument is optional. The character number in the within_text argument at which you want to start searching.

Source: support.office.com

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SEARCH Function

SEARCH allows the wildcard characters. Characters like the question mark (?) and asterisk (*), in find_text.

The ? matches any single character and the * matches any sequence of characters. To find a literal ? or *, use a tilde (~) before the character, i.e. ~* and ~?.

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