SEARCH Function
You are tasked with auditing legal expenses for a company.
You suspect that legal expenses may be miscoded in other accounts so you decided to look through the utilities expense account.
What's the best way to do this? Building a search box of course! Since you don't care about capitalization, you will use the SEARCH function instead of the FIND function. The SEARCH function uses the following format:
SEARCH(search_for, text_to_search)
Let's hold off on conditional formatting for now and use the regular functions in cells first.
This exercise is part of the course
Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets
Exercise instructions
- Enter a
SEARCHfunction in every cell fromD3toD19that searches for thesearch_forword specified in the "Search box" and takes its respective value in columnBas thetext_to_searchrange. The value tosearch_foris in cellF3. - Fix the row but do not fix the column (e.g.
F$3not$F$3).
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