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Excel Tutorial – FIND

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Excel is a powerful tool that allows you to perform a wide range of calculations, including searching for specific text within a cell or range of cells. The FIND function is a useful function in Excel that allows you to search for specific text within a cell or range of cells and return the position of the text within the cell or range.

To use the FIND function, you will need to follow these steps:

  1. Select the cell where you want the result of the FIND function to appear.
  2. Type “=FIND(” (without the quotes) into the cell.
  3. Specify the text that you want to search for. This should be a string of text enclosed in quotation marks.
  4. Type a comma and then specify the cell or range of cells that you want to search.
  5. Optional: Type a comma and then specify the position within the cell or range where you want the search to start. If you do not specify a start position, the search will start at the beginning of the cell or range.
  6. Close the parenthesis by typing “)”.

For example, if you wanted to search for the text “apple” within cell A1, you could use the following formula: “=FIND(“apple”, A1)”. This will return the position of the first occurrence of the text “apple” within cell A1.

You can also use the FIND function to search for text within a range of cells. For example, if you wanted to search for the text “apple” within range A1:A3, you could use the following formula: “=FIND(“apple”, A1:A3)”. This will return the position of the first occurrence of the text “apple” within the range A1:A3.

You can also use the FIND function to specify the position within the cell or range where you want the search to start. For example, if you wanted to search for the text “apple” within cell A1 starting at the fifth character, you could use the following formula: “=FIND(“apple”, A1, 5)”. This will return the position of the first occurrence of the text “apple” within cell A1 starting at the fifth character.

I hope this tutorial has been helpful in understanding how to use the FIND function in Excel.

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