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Am looking for quick way to search for and list, a specified, given text
string in all cells in a column, e.g. look for text string " E/G "
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Assume the target col is col A, data from row2

Put in B2: =ISNUMBER(FIND("E/G",A2))
Put in C2: =ISNUMBER(SEARCH("E/G",A2))

(FIND is case sensitive, SEARCH is not case sensitive)

Select B2:C2 and fill down

Put a label into B1:C1, then do an autofilter in B1 (or in C1) to filter out
the rows with: TRUE, depending on whether search is to be case sensitive or
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I'd apply data|Autofilter to that column.

Then do a custom filter of: Contains " e/g "



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Am looking for quick way to search for and list, a specified, given text
string in all cells in a column, e.g. look for text string " E/G "


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