Nested Search

Minh Hung asks: Hello Mr Oscar I have the matter to create a megaformula to categorize my list. For short […]

Find the most urgent work orders

This animated picture shows you the most urgent work orders for a location. Type a location in cell F3 and […]

Multiple wildcard lookups and include or exclude criteria

Dave asks: Hi Oscar, This is great and compliments your Multiple Criteria and Multiple Matches series of posts very well. […]

Search for a text string and return multiple adjacent values

This article demonstrates array formulas that search for cell values containing a search string and returns corresponding values on the […]

Search each column for a string each and return multiple records – OR logic

RU asks: Can you please suggest if i want to find out the rows with fixed value in "First Name" […]

Return multiple matches with wildcard vlookup

Mr.Excel had a "challenge of the month" June/July 2008 about Wildcard VLOOKUP: "The data in column A contains a series […]

Search and display all cells that contain multiple search strings

Jerome asks, in this blog post Search for multiple text strings in multiple cells in excel : If the list […]

Search columns for a string and return records – AND logic

Question: Can expand this equation set into more than two colums of data, say if I had a first, middle […]

Row is returned if both search strings are found on the same row

Question: I want to search two columns with two search strings? The strings can be anywhere in these two columns […]

Lookup with multiple criteria and return multiple search results

Question: How do I search a list containing First name column and a last name column? I want to search […]

Search for multiple text strings in column – AND logic

Question: How do I search a list for two text strings and return a list with where both strings occurs? […]

How to search for a string in a column

Question: How do i create a flexible search formula to search a list? Answer: The following formula let´s you search […]