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You already know how to find information in an Excel worksheet by using the searching features built into the program. Using the Find tool (press Ctrl+F) you can search for just about anything in your worksheet. I find myself using Find quite often in the course of editing a worksheet, particularly if the worksheet is quite large.
There is one thing about Find that bothers me, however. I hate having the Find and Replace dialog box block part of my worksheet as I am stepping through occurrences of a search string. Clicking on Find Next works great, but that bothersome dialog box is still blocking my view.
To overcome this, I generally do the following when I am searching for something:
This procedure works the same as clicking Find Next repeatedly, and it is just as fast, but it gets rid of the annoying Find dialog box.
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2018-06-18 05:19:19
Courtheyn Joel
As far as I have verified, pressing F4 would be sufficient.
see : https://support.office.com/en-us/article/keyboard-shortcuts-in-excel-for-windows-1798d9d5-842a-42b8-9c99-9b7213f0040f
2018-06-16 08:33:02
JD Murphy
The Find and Replace dialog box disappears.
To find the next occurrence, I press Shift+F4 but nothing happens.
It used to before installation of latest version.
JD Murphy
2018-06-16 06:30:32
Pieter de la Court
Thank you for this incredibly time and nuisance saving tip!
It also works in MS Word.
I wish I had known this years ago.
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