If I select a range of 5 columns and 20 rows there are 100 cells. If I
select a range of 20 columns and 5 rows there are 100 cells. Either way the
search has to search 100 cells. No documentation on Excel I have ever seen,
has told me what difference search by rows or columns makes. Do you know?

Tyro

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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Excel tries to help by remembering the last settings you used--except for
the
first search in that session.

You can use that to your advantage.

You could make a dummy workbook and put it in your xlStart folder. Have a
macro in that workbook that does a find (and sets all the stuff the way
you
like). Then closes and gets out of the way.


Option Explicit
Sub auto_open()

'change the settings the way you like
Worksheets("sheet1").Cells.Find What:="", After:=ActiveCell, _
LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False

ThisWorkbook.Close savechanges:=False

End Sub

The workbook opens, does a find (to fix your settings) and then closes to
get
out of the way.

If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm

But if you do an Edit|Find and change anything, then those changed
settings will
be remembered.

Roy Sprunger wrote:

How do I change the default behavior of the Find & Replace dialog box to
Search by Columns versus Rows?

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Dave Peterson