look for a word in a set of cells (multiple columns X multiple rows)

Osvaldo Palmeiro

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Hi all.

Let's say I have one word in each cell in range A1:E10.
Just one cell in that range has the word "cat".
Is there a fórmula that will return the reference (column and row) from that cell that holds "cat" ?
Many thanks in advance
 

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Try this

=CONCATENATE("Column "&SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$E$10="cat")*COLUMN($A$1:$E$1)-COLUMN($A$1)+1)&", Row "&SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$E$10="cat")*ROW($A$1:$A$10)-ROW($A$1)+1))
 
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Or if you meant the actual cell reference;


Book1
ABCDE
1dogsdogsdogsdogsdogs
2dogsdogsdogsdogsdogs
3dogsdogsdogsdogsdogs
4dogscatdogsdogsdogs
5dogsdogsdogsdogsdogs
6dogsdogsdogsdogsdogs
7dogsdogsdogsdogsdogs
8dogsdogsdogsdogsdogs
9dogsdogsdogsdogsdogs
10dogsdogsdogsdogsdogs
11
12Criteria
13cat
14
15Column 2, Row 4
16
17$B$4
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
A15=CONCATENATE("Column "&SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$E$10="cat")*COLUMN($A$1:$E$1)-COLUMN($A$1)+1)&", Row "&SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$E$10="cat")*ROW($A$1:$A$10)-ROW($A$1)+1))
A17=CELL("address",INDEX($A$1:$E$10,SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$E$10=$A$13)*ROW($A$1:$A$10)-ROW($A$1)+1),SUMPRODUCT(($A$1:$E$10=$A$13)*COLUMN($A$1:$E$1)-COLUMN($A$1)+1)))
 
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