Hi,

Overall, sounds like a job for Access. But if your boss is hell-bent on
sticking with Excel, you could always do this recording a macro and add a
variable through some input box (or the sorts) that way. I'm not sure if
there is a way besides that, as the Search retains the last used settings.

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Regards,
Zack Barresse, aka firefytr



"Idaho Word Man" wrote in message
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I'm very unfamiliar with Excel, so navigating within it is a struggle for
me.
My boss has created a job tracking system in Excel, with multiple tabs
across the bottom, one for each worker in our group. Several times a day
I
need to find out who is working on a particular job, so I open the
tracking
system and use Ctrl-F to search for the job number.

Is there a way I can reset the default search options when I do this?
Every
time I use Ctrl-F, it comes up searching within the individual sheet, by
formulas. Of course I can't find anything that way, so I need to reset it
every time to search within the workbook by values. Is there a way I can
reset the search options once and for all, so it just comes up looking for
what I want? That would be a whole lot less aggravating than needing to
reset
them 20 times a day.

Thanks,

Fred