Hi

AFAIK you won't get anything more "simple", however you can customise my
code to receive entry from a cell (instead of the AAAAA) and then once the
user has entered the data - give them a find button which launches the code.

will this do? if you'ld like help adjusting the code to meet this
requirement, just let me know the sheet name & cell reference where your
users will be typing in 2136. OR we can link it to an input box which asks
the user what they want to look for when they press the find button ...

Cheers
JulieD

"jtinne" wrote in message
...
I was hoping fo something more simple. Multiple people will be using this
work book. I was hoping to find something were someone could just go to
one
page and enter say number "2136" and it would pull up information on that
item, for instance the location, description ect.

I'm basing what I'm trying do on a vlookup program I did looking locations
by the location number.

Thank You

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi

you can use code along the following lines

Sub FindAcrossSheets()
Dim wks As Worksheet
Dim sname As String

i = 20
For Each wks In Worksheets
If UCase(wks.Name) = "SHEET" & i And i < 28 Then
With wks.Cells
Set c = .Find("AAAAA")
If Not c Is Nothing Then
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value = c.Worksheet.Name
Exit Sub
End If
End With
i = i + 1
End If
Next wks

End Sub


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this code looks for the text AAAAA in any worksheet (with sheet names of
Sheet20 to Sheet 27) and if found puts the sheet name into Sheet1 cell A1

to use this code, right mouse click on a sheet tab, choose view code, in
the
vbe window choose insert / module - copy & paste the code in there.
Change
AAAAA to what you're looking for

switch back to the workbook ALT & F11 and choose tools / macro / macros -
find "FindAcrossSheets" and press RUN.

Hope this helps
Cheers
JulieD


"jtinne" wrote in message
...
Okay I understand vlookup will not work and based on all the responses
I've
have recieved, I need to use VBE. I have never used that before and
don't
even know where to begin. If anymore can offer some tips, please do.

Thank You.

"jtinne" wrote:

I need a couple formulas to search a range of sheets on my workbook.

The first one needs to be able to seach through a range of sheets
(exp.
sheet 20 to sheet 27) and find my value then I want it to display the
name of
the sheet it is on.

Second is to seach a range of sheets then display a value of a
specific
cell
on that sheet it is found on.

Thank you for the help!