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Mike H Mike H is offline
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Default character lookup in excel

Hi,

=SEARCH("a",A1)

or if you want a case sensitive option

=FIND("a",A1)

Mike

"gerg" wrote:

How can I determine the position of a certain character within a string in a
cell in ms Excel ?