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patrick molloy patrick molloy is offline
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Default search for one column values in another col ?


use the spreadsheet autofilter and set the column
to "contains"




-----Original Message-----
Hi, I like to find all col1 ocurrences in all Col2

values
For example
IF I have "sarah" in Col1, I like to find in Col2

values such as
1 " sarah" 2 "sarah blah" 3 "blah blah sarah"
*blah* be anything
But I dont want to use string comparision like below,

that take plenty of time
col1 like * " " col2 " " * etc
Anything better appreciated


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