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Google sheets - find the cell containing specific text
In Google Sheets, using formulae, is there a way I can search for a certain string in a certain sheet, and return the reference of the cell which contains that string?
The string would be unique to that cell, but the data isn't stored in a list, nor is it sorted
Solution
You can combine FIND or SEARCH (which is case insensitive) into LARGE and ARRAYFORMULA functions:
=ARRAYFORMULA(ADDRESS(LARGE(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(G1,A1:F15))*ROW(A1:F15),1),LARGE(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(G1,A1:F15))*COLUMN(A1:F15),1)))
If search string is not unique in range, it will find last cell that contains string. If you want find first cell, change LARGE to SMALL function.
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