Hello,
Enter formula in A2:
=if(a1=value($A$5),$A$5,"")
copy this formula from B2 to CZ1 by dragging.
Enter a number in A5, say 12.
You will see all your entries A1:CZ1 that contain a 12.

Regards,

Gabor Sebo




"Gilgamesh" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a range of cells A1:CZ1 all of which have different values. I
need to find the column number for a cell that contains a certain value.
I know I can use cells.find which returns the value rather than the cell
reference, and I have seen other posts in this group to return a number
when the cell is known range(ColAddress).cells(1,1).column

I can easily put this in a simple loop but I was wondering if there was a
smarter way that could do it in one line using built-in functions. If it
was a loop it would have to be processed many times for the different
values I need to lookup slowing things down quite a bit.

Thanks