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    Searching within substring text

    Hi everybody.

    I have a column which has people's names within it:

    Name
    Joe Smith, John Doe
    Mary Carey, George Lopez, Mike Tyson
    etc.etc

    I want to write a function that searches within each cell and looks to see if it matches.
    eg.

    Search input: John Doe

    and it return the entire row where this value is found. Any help with this? I heard substrings may work but I don't know the substring syntax!

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    This link maybe useful

    http://www.ozgrid.com/VBA/find-method.htm

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    Thanks so much! THis wasn't exactly the solution i was looking for but through it i achieved my goals!

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