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Copper Contributor

Dec 14, 2021

Find function in VBA not working consistently

Hi, I used a find function in VBA to find a string in a list. The weird thing is the find function doesn't work for ~15% of the strings. I tried to use xlookup on the same list and it doesn't wo...

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Xuejing

Copper Contributor

Dec 15, 2021

Juliano-Petrukio Hi, I sorted that out. My suspect is some entries have a space after the 4th alphabet. After I used left() to extract the 1st 4 lettters, my code worked... 🙂

Juliano-Petrukio

Bronze Contributor

Dec 15, 2021

Xuejing

Try using TRIM() as well so you can remove unecessary spaces.

Sub YourCode()
    'Your Code/Variables
    
    Dim CleanText As String
    CleanText = Trim(YourCriteria)
    
    'Your Code
    
End Sub