Hi!

Ok, I'm not sure what you're trying to do.

Vlookup can only search the leftmost column of a range and return data from
the nth column to the right.

So, Vlookup will not do what I think you want.

Have you tried filtering?

Biff

"YJL" wrote in message
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Here is my example.

I want to search "abc"

Data

A B C D E
1 abcde fghij klmno pqrst uvwxy

2 fghij klmno pqrst uvwxy abcde

3 klmno pqrst uvwxy pqrst uvwxy

4 edabc fghij klmno pqrst uvwxy