vba excel

working on a search of excel wrkbk, with a user form out front. would rather be doing it in access but need to keep it thin for distribution. Having problems trying to deeal with partial search entries, looking for n1234abc but enter n1234, want to bring up all that contain the partial if someone does't know the whole part number or if they enter it wrong.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated

been trying to do it in VBA.

I have not dealt with Excel much but I can help you with the partial entry.

Say they are searching for n1234 and the string you are searching is n1234abc. You could do this:

Dim testlike

testlike = "n1234abc" Like "*n1234*"

If testlike = True Then
MsgBox ("we have a match")
Else
MsgBox ("no match")
End If

Hope that helps.

Thank you fro your help, That may not be the exact way but you gave me some ideas and got me going in another direction,


thank you very much.

To test this code, open a new workbook, add a UserForm with 2 textboxes & 1 command button to this workbook (leaving the names defaulted), and paste this code into UserForm code window. Add a module & put add a macro to show the userform.

Enter data on the worksheet & run the macro.

VB Code:

Option Explicit
Private strFirstCell As String
 
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
    Static c
    
    Sheets("Sheet1").Select
    If CommandButton1.Caption = "Find" Then
        Range("A1").Select
        strFirstCell = ""
        Set c = Cells.Find(What:=TextBox1.Text, LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlPart, _
            MatchCase:=False)
        If Not c Is Nothing Then
            c.Select
            strFirstCell = ActiveCell.Address
            TextBox2.Text = c.Value
            CommandButton1.Caption = "Find Next"
        End If
    Else
        Set c = Cells.FindNext(After:=ActiveCell)
        If Not c Is Nothing Then
            c.Select
            If ActiveCell.Address = strFirstCell Then
                MsgBox "All partial strings found."
                CommandButton1.Caption = "Find"
            Else
                TextBox2.Text = c.Value
            End If
        End If
    End If
End Sub

Hope this helps.
Nate

Thank you very much for your help, with a little tweaking I believe this could be the answer to my prayers. Thank you for taking the time to help me it is greatly appreciated.