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Search within workbook
Hi all, I am newbie with excel. Situation follows. I have a workbook with two sheets, each sheet has around 60000 rows(part number) and 6 columns (various prices for coresponding part number). This is a price list imported from Access. 1. I need to protect workbook(read only) for distribution and provide search option for entire workbook. (i.e. search for part number and result should be entire row highlighted for that part) With ctrl-f default option is search "within a sheet" and I need "within a workbook"as a default. 2. Should (and how) I create third sheet for search option and results. Please direct me where to look (books, www) and what to look for, because I do not find Excel help very helpfull. Thanks in advance -- Mare ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mare's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=27644 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=471672 |
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Mare, When you go to the Ctrl-F search dialog, click on the Replace tab and OPTIONS - there is a pull-daown to select WORKBOOK instead of the default option "Sheet" Getting the entire row to highlight when it finds the right part and its corresponding price is into the relms to programming and I think once you're in there, the Ctrl-F option is going to be redunant. Anyone else have any ideas? -- Jon Quixley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Quixley's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25803 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=471672 |
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Thanks Jon, I did not explain that I need to distribute this workbook( price list ) to retailers, and what I need is when THEY press "ctrl-f", default option should be "search within workbook" regardless of default setting in Excel, which is "search within sheet". If that is possible I would not have to explain to all of them, what you have kindly explained to me. "When you go to the Ctrl-F search dialog, click on the Replace tab and OPTIONS - there is a pull-daown to select WORKBOOK instead of the default option "Sheet" " I hope this helps to understand my problem. Thanks -- Mare ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mare's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=27644 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=471672 |
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Mare,
I am not sure if we were looking for the same thing but here is a reply that I received that took care of my problem/question. ================================================== == Hi Rick, On Stephen Bullen's Excel MVP page http://www.oaltd.co.uk/MVP/Default.htm FindLink by Bill Manville would work FlexFind by Jan Karel Pieterse would work better and is specifically designed for Find Selecting all of the sheets and doing Find may be helpful but it really does not work. Aside from the danger of forgetting you selected all sheets and could permanently damage your file as any change to what you see is done to all the other sheets in the selection as well. -- --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm ================================================== = "Mare" wrote: Thanks Jon, I did not explain that I need to distribute this workbook( price list ) to retailers, and what I need is when THEY press "ctrl-f", default option should be "search within workbook" regardless of default setting in Excel, which is "search within sheet". If that is possible I would not have to explain to all of them, what you have kindly explained to me. "When you go to the Ctrl-F search dialog, click on the Replace tab and OPTIONS - there is a pull-daown to select WORKBOOK instead of the default option "Sheet" " I hope this helps to understand my problem. Thanks -- Mare ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mare's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=27644 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=471672 |
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