Select just one cell before issuing the Ctrl F command or select all of the cells.
If that is not the problem, post again with a sample of your search string

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Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

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|I am using the Ctrl F command to search through a 3,000 row
| spreadsheet to locate a string of data. I am getting an error message
| indicating "Microsoft Excel cannot locate the data you are search for"
| However when I page through the data I find it in different cells.
| What am I not doing.
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