VBA function find

Range.Find method (Excel)

Find specific information in the area.

grammar

表达式.Find (What, After, LookIn, LookAt, SearchOrder, SearchDirection, MatchCase, MatchByte, SearchFormat)

expression represents Range variable objects.

parameter

name	Required / Optional	type of data	Explanation
What	essential	Variant	To search for data. It may be a string data type or any Microsoft Excel.
After	Optional	Variant	To start a cell search thereafter. When searching from the user interface, which corresponds to the position of the active cell. Note that, the After must be a single cell within the area. Please note that the search begins after this cell; before wrapping method to this cell will not search for the specified cell. If this parameter is not specified, the search will begin at the top left region of the rear cell.
LookIn	Optional	Variant	The following may be XlFindLookIn one of the constants: xlFormulas , xlValues , xlComments or xlCommentsThreaded .
LookAt	Optional	Variant	The following may be XlLookAt one of the constants: xlWhole or xlPart .
SearchOrder	Optional	Variant	The following may be XlSearchOrder one of the constants: xlByRows or xlByColumns .
SearchDirection	Optional	XlSearchDirection	Direction of the search.
MatchCase	Optional	Variant	If True , the search is case sensitive. The default value is False .
MatchByte	Optional	Variant	Use only when selected or installed double-byte language support. If True , then double-byte characters match only double-byte characters. If it is False , then the double-byte characters match their equivalent single-byte characters.
SearchFormat	Optional	Variant	Search format.

return value

A Range object that represents the first cell where to find this information.

annotation

If no match is found, this method returns Nothing . Find method does not affect the selection or the active cell.

Each time you use this method, it will save LookIn , LookAt , SearchOrder and MatchByte settings. If the next time this method is called values of these parameters are not specified, the value stored is used. Setting these parameters will change the "look" is set **** dialog box, change the "look" Saved values used when setting **** dialog box will change omit the parameter. To avoid problems, please explicitly set these parameters each time you use this method.

Use FindNext and FindPrevious method may repeat the search.

When the search reaches the end of the search area specified, it will go around the region beginning position. To stop this from happening in the wraparound searching, save the address of the cell in the first find, and then test each successive cell address found for this saved address.

To find a cell with a more complex pattern matching, set the For Each ... Next statement with the Like operator is used in combination. For example, the following code search area A1: C5 in all cells in which name begins with letter fonts Cour. When Microsoft Excel to find a match, it will change the font to Times New Roman.

For Each c In [A1:C5] If c.Font.Name Like "Cour*" Then c.Font.Name = "Times New Roman" End If Next`

Examples

In this example, the first range A1 a worksheet: to find all the A500 cell values 2, and the value of a cell change these five.

With Worksheets(1).Range("a1:a500")

Set c = .Find(2, lookin:=xlValues)

If Not c Is Nothing Then

firstAddress = c.Address

c.Value = 5

Set c = .FindNext(c)

Loop While Not c Is Nothing

End If

End With

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