Question : search complex strings in excel

I have an array of data which is made up of complex strings which are the part numbers (T157FR8 as an example). This data is not easiy sorted or searched via the find or lookup functions. Is there a macro or other means of searching these types of text strings to locate the row this string is in?

Answer : search complex strings in excel

Hello frankstifter,

Please explain what you need to do.  VLOOKUP and MATCH should do just fine with it; just be sure to pass
FALSE for the optional 4th argument to VLOOKUP, or 0 for the 3rd argument to MATCH, to enforce exact
matches and make the sorting irrelevant...

Regards,

Patrick