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Set Default Search to By Columns in Excel
What are search By Column or By Row?
Can you explain the difference bewteen them?
peiyezhu The default Find and Replace settings are
Within: Sheet
Search: By Rows
Look in: Formulas
I want it to be
Within: Sheet
Search: By Columns
Look in: Formulas
- There appears to be a way to do this in older versions of Excel, but the directions provided do not work with my current version of Excel
I guess the UI has been removed from new 365.
Why do you need search by columns?I prefer to sort by column because each line contains a unique client ID number. That ID number is concatenated into a few other columns as well. when searching with that client ID number I don't need it to find it four times in one row.
- re:have several Excel spreadsheets with over 100,000 lines.
Do you feel lag or slow when you open a workbook with 100,000 lines?I have several columns containing formulas. When opening the document with lots of lookups, then yes it can be slow. Primarily it causes my Bluetooth keyboard to be unresponsive for several seconds. I go through the spreadsheet weekly and copy the lookup results and then paste values only. That reduces the overall lookups and then it is not too slow.