Excel Function Dictionary 1998 - 2000 Peter Noneley A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 B C D E F G

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FIND
Text Hello Hello Hello Alan Williams Alan Williams Alan Williams Letter To Find e H o a a T Position Of Letter 2 1 5 3 11 #VALUE! =FIND(D4,C4) =FIND(D5,C5) =FIND(D6,C6) =FIND(D7,C7) =FIND(D8,C8,6) =FIND(D9,C9)

What Does It Do? This function looks for a specified letter inside another piece of text. When the letter is found the position is shown as a number. If the text contains more than one reference to the letter, the first occurrence is used. An additional option can be used to start the search at a specific point in the text, thus enabling the search to find duplicate occurrences of the letter. If the letter is not found in the text, the result #VALUE is shown. Syntax =FIND(LetterToLookFor,TextToLookInside,StartPosition) LetterToLookFor : This needs to be a single character. TextToLookInside : This is the piece of text to be searched through. StartPosition : This is optional, it specifies at which point in the text the search should begin. Formatting No special formatting is needed, the result will be shown as a number.