{"id":124,"date":"2018-12-27T17:26:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/?p=124"},"modified":"2021-06-06T09:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T09:34:47","slug":"search-problem-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/search-problem-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Excel not searching within the selection range"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sometimes you might have experienced that even though a range is selected for the search (find) function,\u00a0 Excel ignores it and search everywhere in the file.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is because you have selected the &#8216;Find Within Workbook&#8217; option instead of &#8216;Find Within Worksheet&#8217; option. To solve this issue, simply opt &#8216;work sheet&#8217; instead of &#8216;workbook&#8217; in find box.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Refer the following excel spreadsheet.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/search_within_selection_range.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">External links for other issues that might cause this problem<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xtremevbtalk.com\/showthread.php?t=67723\"> Selection area search problem<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forums.techguy.org\/business-applications\/887873-excels-search-feature-not-working.html\"> Excel\u2019s search feature not working<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20080112111706AAS2JJ0\"> Selection area search in Excel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Search engine keywords for this question<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">Excel searching outside Selection Area<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">Excel not searching within selection range<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10px;\">Search problem Excel 2007, 2010<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}