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Change Default Setting-Find & Replace-How?
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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? -- Dave Peterson |
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Change Default Setting-Find & Replace-How?
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 ... Saved from a previous post: 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? -- Dave Peterson |
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Change Default Setting-Find & Replace-How?
If you do a replace all, I don't think it would make a difference.
But if you're hitting the find next button, then it would make a difference. Tyro wrote: 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 ... Saved from a previous post: 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? -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Change Default Setting-Find & Replace-How?
Even find next has to look through the 100 cells. If all the occurrences are
in one row and I select search by row, Find Next does not know that there are no other occurrences until all 100 cells have been searched row by row Or, am I missing something?. Tyro "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... If you do a replace all, I don't think it would make a difference. But if you're hitting the find next button, then it would make a difference. Tyro wrote: 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 ... Saved from a previous post: 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? -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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If all the occurrences are in a single row or a single column, there's no
difference. But the selection pattern of find next will be different when the searched for values are not in that single column/row. Tyro wrote: Even find next has to look through the 100 cells. If all the occurrences are in one row and I select search by row, Find Next does not know that there are no other occurrences until all 100 cells have been searched row by row Or, am I missing something?. Tyro "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... If you do a replace all, I don't think it would make a difference. But if you're hitting the find next button, then it would make a difference. Tyro wrote: 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 ... Saved from a previous post: 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? -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Gentlemen, you are missing the point.
Excel may search every cell in a worksheet but it appears to stop on the first hit. In my experience, if I have 35,000+ rows by 50 columns and I know the keyword is in column A, specifying to search by columns returns a hit faster than it does searching by rows. Be that as it may, it appears there is no way to change the program defaults from within the program. It will require an external influence. I am finding Excel 2003 has a great deal less flexibility and allowable user customization than Word 2003 without resorting to Macros or Visual Basic. Roy "Dave Peterson" wrote: If all the occurrences are in a single row or a single column, there's no difference. But the selection pattern of find next will be different when the searched for values are not in that single column/row. Tyro wrote: Even find next has to look through the 100 cells. If all the occurrences are in one row and I select search by row, Find Next does not know that there are no other occurrences until all 100 cells have been searched row by row Or, am I missing something?. Tyro "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... If you do a replace all, I don't think it would make a difference. But if you're hitting the find next button, then it would make a difference. Tyro wrote: 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 ... Saved from a previous post: 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? -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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I don't think I missed the point.
But if you know the value you're searching for is in column A, then select column A before you begin the search. The search will be limited to the cells in the selection. Roy Sprunger wrote: Gentlemen, you are missing the point. Excel may search every cell in a worksheet but it appears to stop on the first hit. In my experience, if I have 35,000+ rows by 50 columns and I know the keyword is in column A, specifying to search by columns returns a hit faster than it does searching by rows. Be that as it may, it appears there is no way to change the program defaults from within the program. It will require an external influence. I am finding Excel 2003 has a great deal less flexibility and allowable user customization than Word 2003 without resorting to Macros or Visual Basic. Roy "Dave Peterson" wrote: If all the occurrences are in a single row or a single column, there's no difference. But the selection pattern of find next will be different when the searched for values are not in that single column/row. Tyro wrote: Even find next has to look through the 100 cells. If all the occurrences are in one row and I select search by row, Find Next does not know that there are no other occurrences until all 100 cells have been searched row by row Or, am I missing something?. Tyro "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... If you do a replace all, I don't think it would make a difference. But if you're hitting the find next button, then it would make a difference. Tyro wrote: 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 ... Saved from a previous post: 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? -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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