FWIW, if you'd put Option Explicit before your code, you would have known
that you didn't have intSearch declared as well.

"wthomas206" wrote:

How do I use the InStr function with variables?
Dim intStart as integer
Dim strSearch as string
Dim strSought as string

strSearch = Range("E2").Value 'Cell value is PO Box 111 LAKEBAYWA 98349
strSought = Range("F2").Value 'Cell value is LAKEBAY

intStart = InStr(intSearch, strSought) ' intStart returns 0