question on sorting

[judycoco]

okay i have a huge spread sheet and i want to find all the rows that have an identified word. the word might be in the middle or end of the row/ cell or i would sort in alpha order.

how do i do this?

 

[crook_101]

Hi,

Add the word you are looking for at the end as shown below in G1

Add the formula in the cell nest to it - adjust the range to match your data, copy down your sheet - it "Fred" exists in a row the formula will show 1, filter/sort tis column to show "Fred"!!

<b>Excel 2007</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #E0E0F0" /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th><th>D</th><th>E</th><th>F</th><th>G</th><th>H</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;">dfred</td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;">fred</td><td style="text-align: center;;">1</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style="text-align: center;;">what fred did it</td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;">fred</td><td style="text-align: center;;">1</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">3</td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;">freda</td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;">fred</td><td style="text-align: center;;">1</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">4</td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;">help me fred</td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;">fred</td><td style="text-align: center;;">1</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">5</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">fred fed the cat</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: center;;">fred</td><td style="text-align: center;;">1</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="width:3.6em;font-weight:bold;margin:0;padding:0.2em 0.6em 0.2em 0.5em;border: 1px solid #A6AAB6;border-top:none;text-align: center;background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">Sheet1</p><br /><br /><table width="85%" cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">H1</th><td style="text-align:left">=--(<font color="Blue">COUNTIF(<font color="Red">A1:F1,"*"&G1&"*"</font>)>0</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">H2</th><td style="text-align:left">=--(<font color="Blue">COUNTIF(<font color="Red">A2:F2,"*"&G2&"*"</font>)>0</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">H3</th><td style="text-align:left">=--(<font color="Blue">COUNTIF(<font color="Red">A3:F3,"*"&G3&"*"</font>)>0</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">H4</th><td style="text-align:left">=--(<font color="Blue">COUNTIF(<font color="Red">A4:F4,"*"&G4&"*"</font>)>0</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">H5</th><td style="text-align:left">=--(<font color="Blue">COUNTIF(<font color="Red">A5:F5,"*"&G5&"*"</font>)>0</font>)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />

Cheers,
Ian

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