You can easily identify it by watching out the title bar where generally the filename appears at the screen top.

Why is search function in excel not working. The reason behind this can be that your grouped worksheets. Make sure you dont have multiple cells selected otherwise Search will only look in selected cells. The problem was caused by the Excel feature Find by format feature red dot.

I have used a combination of ISNUMBER and SEARCH to find if cells contains certain TEXT. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. Find and replace dont work also when the sheets of your Excel workbook is password protected.

This can cause a false positive when find_text comes from a cell and the cell is empty. From here i used this as part of an if formula. Reason 2 Accidentally Typed the keys CTRL Reason 3 Values are.

So check out whether your worksheets are grouped or not. Excel Sheet Does Not Scroll Down. Match case and Match entire cell contents are both unchecked.

For some reason I cannot scroll vertically in the list anymore. Eg if one searches for the value -789258 it will find only unformatted versions of cells. This means find and replace wont work in a protected worksheet.

To turn it off click on the Format button green dot and then select the Clear option. The problem is that if it can only contain one of those words then where it doesnt contain one of the keywords the SEARCH function will return an error. If your Filter function button is appearing gray in color then it means that the filter not working in Excel.