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    Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    Hello..

    I am having few issues with regards to the results of the Advanced search VBA. Hope you can assist me with this problem.

    This is a simple userform with a text box and a list box. The aim is not to match all the case, but to search the data for any match and then display the rows of the matches. For example if I search for "Ex", the result would display all rows of the data that have somewhere in the row words similar to "Ex" such as "Excel", "Example" .... Please see attached excel to help understand better.

    THE PROCESS:

    1. The user types in the text box what to search for,
    2. The value of the textbox is sent to "L9" cell in the workbook
    3. An advanced filter runs that searches the available data for the value of cell "L9" and then pastes the filtered results in the allocated range.
    4. The listbox mirrors the results in the allocated range.

    All seem to work well and perfect. Except when the search is done, if a match is found in a specific column "E", it does not carry on to search all the remaining columns and only gives the results found in that column.

    Example: in the attached excel: We have the word "TEST" in four cells: B14, D12, D13, F15 & H17 - When we search for the word TEST and run it, it only gives the following results: D12 & D13 (That is Row 12 & Row 13) - it does not look in other columns.


    Please advice on this issue.


    Thank you

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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    No work on the sheet, all in memory

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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    Hello Leo, Thanks a lot for your reply. The solution seems neat and simple but I couldn't get it to work for some reason. It doesn't give results for searched text.

    Thanks

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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    Amir,

    doesn't give result ? or not all ?

    Not all could be because it is Case sensitive, so Example is not the same as example or EXEMPLE


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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    Leo, It turns out it is case sensitive and if written correctly it produces results.

    However, if I search for the term "FIND", it locates all but the one in cell "E17". But when I search the text "TEST" it gives correctly all the results (Please see attached pic).

    This is similar to the problem I first had.

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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    Shame on me, forget 1 column

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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    And the new file


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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    Works perfectly.. I will now use your method and try and tweak it for case sensitivity and auto detection of rows and add it to my project. Hope all goes well.

    Thanks a lot!

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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    Hi,
    To avoid case sensitivity you could use LCase().
    Just make all characters as LowerCase when you search, like this:
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    This will match Test and tEsT as equal.

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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    Amir,

    for Case sensitive kasan give solution, for this auto row detection, explain ?


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    Re: Excel VBA Userform database search - Advanced Filter

    @ kasan.. Thanks it Worked!

    @ Leo.. Because I was aiming to add lots of data in the worksheet, I did't want to have to enter a sentence for each row. It's working perfect now. I used the last row detect code to get the number of rows. Thanks for all your help.

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