On Apr 19, 6:31 pm, "Niek Otten" wrote:
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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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

wrote in ooglegroups.com...

|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.
|

This command works for about three attempts then I begin getting the
error message.

1281.50 is a sample of the data