Search, copy and paste across multiple worksheets

Hi all, first post!

Apologies if this is meant to be in the Excel Functions forum

I have a workbook with 6 worksheets in, 5 worksheets contain data whilst the 6th I will use as a search worksheet. The 5 data worksheets contain columns A to J which have text entries in.

What I would like help with is for me to click a button on the search worksheet, lets call it worksheet 1, and for an inputbox to allow the user to enter a text search. The macro would then search for this text in columns A to J and all rows (or rows with data in) on the 5 data worksheets, and if found, copy the entire contents of those rows where the text is found and paste them into worksheet 1, the search sheet.

I have done a forum search and found a few examples of this type of search but not across multiple worksheets, also I found this code that does search across multiple sheets but does not copy and paste:

Sub Find_Data()
Dim datatoFind
Dim sheetCount As Integer
Dim counter As Integer
Dim currentSheet As Integer
On Error Resume Next
currentSheet = ActiveSheet.Index
datatoFind = InputBox("Please enter the value to search for")
If datatoFind = "" Then Exit Sub
sheetCount = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Count
If IsError(CDbl(datatoFind)) = False Then datatoFind = CDbl(datatoFind)
For counter = 1 To sheetCount
Sheets(counter).Activate
Cells.Find(What:=datatoFind, After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt _
:=xlWhole, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:= _
False).Activate
If ActiveCell.Value = datatoFind Then Exit Sub
Next counter
If ActiveCell.Value <> datatoFind Then
MsgBox ("Value not found")
Sheets(currentSheet).Activate
End If
End Sub

I've also tried an autofilter but this only searches one column, not all.

Hope I've been clear, any help much appreciated

Hi GeneralDisarray,

Thanks for your help, I won't have a chance to try it out until Friday so will report back then.

Thanks again!

Hi,

This works great, many thanks for your help!

take care