Another way:

=LOOKUP(REPT("z",255),1:1)

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"T. Valko" wrote in message
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Try this:

The range of interest is row 1

=INDEX(1:1,MATCH("*",1:1,0))

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"sahafi" wrote in message
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I have several columns with zero values (0), and one column that contains
text value. On another cell, I would like to have a formula/function that
searches the entire row, and return only the text value. Any help is
highly
appreciated.

Thanks.
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