Excel Dynamic Search Box Tutorial | Find Anything | Multi-Column Search

[@shoasKp]

you know it well and explain simply ;that's what smart teachers do.

[@RebekahOster]

Wow what a compliment!!

[@realmanta6706]

I have watched several videos on this topic and all presented error in implementation, until this one. Great job! Thank you for sharing.

[@RebekahOster]

I really appreciate that!

[@WavzonRox39]

Beautifully presented - precise, clear, concise! Very much appreciate your direct and fast implementation - so much easier than dozens of other videos! And a very useful, simplified method. Will definitely be looking forward to all your posts! Thank You!

[@RebekahOster]

Thanks so much! Stay tuned 🙂

[@mardjes]

Hello, I'm from Brazil. This video helped me to study English and Excel. Thanks.

[@ziggle314]

Lots of goodies in this presentation: (1) ActiveX gave you dynamic abilities, (2) Good use of "New Rule" in conditional formatting, (3) filtering using multiple criteria, (4) Nice use of paste while keeping column widths. Thanks. You got a new subscriber. 😁

[@RebekahOster]

I appreciate it! You sound like an experienced Excel user 😏 Welcome!

[@oculoman]

Good tips and clear descriptions

[@M.Asif66]

You made SEARCH filtering with selective columns so easy, thanks for transferring knowledge.

[@phandongexcel]

I like this video ❤❤❤❤

[@RebekahOster]

I appreciate it!!

[@alaaabdelrahim4074]

YOU DESERVE AN EXCEL OSCAR AWARD.

[@cruzianfibergeek]

I have seen quite a few of these videos on adding search boxes this is the first one that i was able to follow without tuning out. You covered exactly what I need done which is to search a table but return only some of the columns.

[@RebekahOster]

Wow what a compliment!! Thank you for watching 😀

[@nonoobott8602]

This is so insightful and you were very explicit. Learned a lot. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@RebekahOster]

Thank you for your feedback! Have you seen my free training? Excelpowerup.com/training ❤️

[@SirThomas-p3q]

best video I've seen on this subject! And it worked out -of-the-box. No struggle trying to discover why it wasn't working.

[@mukhtarsheriff]

Thank you. We need more of your educative tutorials

[@RebekahOster]

I’m working on them! I have a free masterclass with great content here: www.excelpowerup.com/training

[@bumpersmith]

Thank you. These are Exceptionally good clear explanations. Can a form be created that would use a combo box with this type of multi column fuzzy type search? Also it was nice to see in a normal video instead of a short.

[@RebekahOster]

I appreciate it! That's a great question. Do you mean you want the results to be displayed in a combo box? If that's the case, you might need to use VBA code to populate the combo box.

[@bumpersmith]

@@RebekahOster Yes in a combobox on a form that will allow a search just like you show in the video. I looked at all your videos but didn't see anything like this. How about making one to show how?

[@RebekahOster]

Thanks for the idea!! I'll add it to my list 😀

[@deliasantos3353]

Rebekah Oster- you are an amazing teacher .. you made this so easy to understand. I just did this for a spreadsheet at work and it came out great.. Thank you, looking forward to your other teachings

[@RebekahOster]

That's so wonderful!!

[@sizable21]

Really clear and will definitely use this

[@RebekahOster]

Thanks so much! What kind of spreadsheet do you have in mind?

[@hichamhadj9640]

Awesome, so much knowledge in one video

[@RebekahOster]

Glad you liked it!

[@shaundover1695]

Great demonstration, for a Newby this was so easy to follow and well explained..

[@megandesrochers1637]

I’ve been on the hunt for implementing what I envisioned Excel to be able to do! You nailed it. I do wish, however, that the search bar could be on the same sheet as the data and just filter that set of data vs creating another table elsewhere.

[@MegaMadhuSudhan]

Wonderful and very easy to understand, not so much complicated.

[@daphnetarango775]

Wow. I learned so much watching this. Thank you!

[@RebekahOster]

Yay! 🎉

[@MedianMagic]

Very, very useful. And so well-presented. You've got a new subscriber!

[@RebekahOster]

Welcome aboard! Thank you :)

[@stephieYT]

This was so easy to follow!! You have a great pace and way of explaining!

[@RebekahOster]

Thank you so much! Have you signed up for my masterclass? www.excelpowerup.com/training 🎉

[@sabinezinkpielage1742]

Thank you Rebekah, great example and video 😘

[@RebekahOster]

You are so welcome! I’d love to hear if you tried it out 😁

[@RichardJones73]

Nice clear tutorial. I done a similar search like this (but not with a fancy searchbox) and used the column headers in the search page to tell the choosecols function what to use,using Match function to get the column number.

[@RebekahOster]

Wow that's a really cool approach!! Very dynamic 😀 And it would be easy for other users to change.

[@gregdiete1817]

Easy to follow, thank you and something I can use.

[@RebekahOster]

That's wonderful!! What kind of spreadsheets are you working with?

[@Riskiest_Biscuit]

Around 5:38 you began typing text into your textbox. When I try doing this, the cursor icon does not show up and the text is not shown autopopulating in real time when I type. Only when I hit enter does the text show up, so something is clearly wrong with the textbox settings, but I have no idea what that is.

[@SourcesLegalTranslation-pn7wu]

Hi, Rebekah! I like your video so much I will use this idea in my spreadsheet. Can I ask about filter function errors when nested with choosecols? I have one with if empty part not working because of choosecols.

[@gazo910]

Yes, as soon as I add CHOOSECOLS function it throws #value instead of "No Schools found" ... Anyone found a solution for this. Thx

[@wizitchizit]

Definitely gonna play around with this! There are certain functions at work that could be drastically improved with this!

[@androricojavier3621]

I have learned so much from you thanks

[@AsfM-o1q]

Very useful and advanced, yet simply explained. Well done. Thank you

[@marocinfo1087]

I have data containing numbers only can this wroks too ?

[@julianvargas2401]

Excellent video! I have an issue with the 'Text Box'. I made the search bar but after I click on the 'Design Mode' to deactivate it and enter text in the activeX text box, the cursor does not show. I type and no text appears in the Text Box. I can see the text typed into this box show on the 'LinkedCell' but not within the actual Text Box. I'll be grateful for any help.

[@nancyg7845]

This was very helpful! Thank you. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@RebekahOster]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sohailjafri1423]

Helpful above the satisfactory level! Best ever video on the topic I have seen. Thank you very much.

[@veruscrt]

I love your tutorials so much that I've liked and added a follow.

[@RebekahOster]

Wow that means so much! Thank you!!

[@karenschoenberg4487]

This was excellent - thank you.

[@RebekahOster]

I appreciate it! Do you have a spreadsheet that could use a search box?

[@sealhouselimited1285]

I literally have spent 3 hours looking other search box tutorials and each failed and took forever, I came upon yours and in 14 minutes it was done and dusted perfectly. thank you for that, you are absolutely awesome.

[@RebekahOster]

Wow great job!! I love finding the easiest and best ways to improve your spreadsheets! For more, check out my masterclass here: www.excelpowerup.com/training 🥳

[@wichstad]

Adding a lineshift in the formula was helpful, a new trick i didn't know about. Thanks for a great tutorial

[@RebekahOster]

I’m so glad it was helpful! My goal is to share the most useful methods to make your spreadsheets shine 🎉. I have a free training here: www.excelpowerup.com/training

[@chelseafcvideos7472]

This is great! One question, how do I make sure that my hyperlinks transfer across to the search bar page too?

[@DinoDelight]

Wow, you made that look so easy, thanks for the great tutorial

[@RebekahOster]

I'm so glad! 😀

[@MO-di7up]

🎉. In an ideal universe we could use the filters in combination with this filter. Could we?

[@rldb]

Very simple and straight forward video. Liked and subscribed. Thank you.

[@kevinbryden1327]

This was so helpful. I have been trying to catalog our flower beds by location and this helped us find a specific plats location. Now if I can figure out how to display the photo of the plant it would be perfect.

[@RebekahOster]

Great job!! I’m so glad this video was helpful. I have another video about adding photos to your spreadsheet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4CciauZqdZkZ7ssi=CdgtF17DwJHz0Aua . If you added a column for each “Plant Photo”, it should pop up when you do the search. Best of luck to you!

[@marocinfo1087]

What if we have just numbers?

[@ExcelTL]

Nice. Hadn't thought of implementing instant search this way. You earned a sub!

[@AmeliaRDream100]

Thank you! What if the Name of the school and primary contact email address were on a second tab. How could a search bar on the primary sheet "pull through" second tab details like the email address by entering the name of the school?

[@mosheslonim3255]

Great video! Question - I followed the instruction but something does not work ("there is a problem with the formula"). I think the derived from the table name - when I write it + [, the columns list does not open. Any idea hoe to fix this? Thanks

[@markanthonycornelio7657]

Hi. What about if you need to edit something on the table that will automatically save to the Main table?

[@mukhtarsheriff]

I can't thank you enough. You are a great Excel tutor

[@RebekahOster]

Thank you so much! 🥳

[@mastershonobi110]

Great tutorial and explanation. 🙏🏾🦾❤️

[@rexbenemerito1943]

It works for me. Thank you Rebekah for this tutorial. Very helpful without VBA coding (I wish I can), I can get the needed results quickly.

[@RebekahOster]

That's wonderful! Great job!!

[@MSAgha]

Birlliant and very simple, its very helpful and I solve this search with the help of your video. Thank you so much

[@pray628]

You got a new subscriber here. The best tutorial so far on the subject of Dynamic Search Bar. I am wondering if you could add an additional upgrade - ie. to return a data in School Name wherein the original data of school name is a hyperlink to its website. That is the School Name is an active URL. Will it possible to return the same in the result of a dynamic search?

[@hendryns2419]

the best suggested video i got so far.

[@RebekahOster]

Haha that’s awesome!! Have you seen my free training? www.excelpowerup.com/training 😁

[@thehank5368]

Nice, thanks for sharing. Would you have any ideas on how to make this with multiple selections (without VBA, i.e. macro's disabled) similar to a slicer with multiple selections. When you use a slicer with multiple selections defined on a long data set/list you easily miss the overview of all your selections...

[@czechthailao5033]

This is the best video. Thank you so much.

[@RebekahOster]

Glad you liked it!

[@joachimsundstrom6686]

You saved my day. Really helpful

[@frankrogers2254]

really enjoyed this video. very informative. question if one of the col contains a number value. is there anyway to get a total value for that row to display at bottom. thanks in advance.

[@muhammadasif4916]

Thank you so much, I watched lot of videos about his topic but you are the best best best and easiest to understand ......

[@RebekahOster]

That is so kind! Thank you very much 🎉

[@jayceeharb1305]

this was amazing !!! simple, concise, and very useful #new sub

[@RebekahOster]

So happy that you found it useful!

[@BruceP]

It's what I was looking for, but my table has one column with hyperlinked text. Is there any way to carry that hyperlink over? Second item, is there a way to have a default text in the search field like "click here" that disappears when it's clicked or is that a product ofVBA only? It's just that I don't want to display the whole table by default, I'd like it to show zero results when someone opens it. Thanks muchly!

[@bertvantol9669]

GREAT !!! THANKS .... Can I have your file, so Excel translates the formulas to Dutch format ??

[@TechWithTony]

how is this done if we want to search across multiple sheets/tabs or the entire workbook?

[@Bartlefevere]

I have built an address book using your video. Everything worked very well so thank you very much for the video. I have identified one problem. If I enter a search term that is not found, the text is displayed as determined in the formula. But this only works if you omit the formula "CHOOSE.COLS". If you use the "CHOOSE.COLS" function, it will no longer work! The filtering of the columns works perfectly, but if you enter a search term that does not exist in your table, you will receive an error message "VALUE". To be clear, without the "CHOOSE.COLS" function it works as it should. Any idea how this happens? Thanks a lot in advance. Kind regards

[@MOHAMED_MASRI]

Thank you very much for your beautiful, simple and wonderful explanation. This is really the first time I have learned this information from you. I have a question, what kind of version of Office is this? Thank you very much.

[@wandavazquez6320]

Awesome. Definitely going to use this. Thanks

[@bensonstrumpet_tips]

Very helpful thank you

[@MathieuHart-x1g]

is there anyway to keep this search box and be able to edit the cells that it returns? Currently its giving me a spill error.

[@ynotedaw6960]

Very interesting. I like the way you explain the formulas. I’m not great with nesting formulas, but your explanation really helped me. I may use a search box to allow my team to pull data quickly from customer alert data based. I’ll have to think this through carefully. (And watch this clip 10 more times.) 😂 BTW, you earned a subscribe from me and I’m stingy with subscribing to Excel channels.

[@DhruvDua88]

Very well explained and thanks!

[@RebekahOster]

I appreciate it! I would love to hear how you would use a search box in your spreadsheet 😀

[@ArifKhan-yh2ps]

Amazing tutorial, keep it up, you will soon rock

[@abhijitdey1819]

Thank you so much madam. But if I want to search by all columns value what will be the formula. Please help me

[@JulianOnly.]

What version of excel do you use?

[@jesqueenoliviaanooo6167]

Thanks a lot!!! Most of tutorial that i found, this video the one that actually work on me🎉 thank you soo much !!!

[@RebekahOster]

You are so welcome!! Have you seen my free training? www.excelpowerup.com/training 🎉

[@kevinbryden1327]

How do I narrow the isnumber I am looking for a location which are assigned numbers 1 to 38. In my search I type 1 and I get 1,11,12,13,14,etc when all I want is location 1 for example

[@hassalmua1691]

Excellent presentation but I cant get mine working.

[@alishernizamov5356]

Great tutorial for a dynamic search field for excel. Thank you. Question: how would you go about creating a search field with more dynamic functionality where the search is focused on one column and is searching multiple words in the column. The search may not follow the actual order of the words in the field but needs to return the lines with all the words that are being searched. Example: If I type "pipe, pvc" or "pvc, pipe" in the search field, the result should return the result as shown below. Is this achievable? Thanks in advance. Search: pipe, pvc result: PIPE, 30", GRAY, PVC YELLOW, 25", PIPE, PVC PIPE, BASE, RACEWAY (CHANNEL), PVC, OFF-WHITE, 2.38 X 0.73 INCHES X 10 FEET

[@kimiyam8329]

Thanks, if I want only some of the headers in the search, what should I do?

[@RebekahOster]

Hi there! Do you mean you only want to retrieve some of the columns from your data? In this video, the last example at 12:26 explains how to do this. Let me know if you had something else in mind 🙂

[@andrenalize]

I follow step by step and it worked. Thank youu

[@RebekahOster]

Woot woot! You are so welcome 🤗

[@carinaelpedez5056]

can i search a name with two different columns and different header?

[@RGKnightandSon]

Fantastic video! I manage a large club membership database on Excel and have followed these instructions to add a seach function to the surname and postcode column of the members listed and i can find members details very easily with your method, however, I would like to be able to edit the members details that results from a search. Is this possible?

[@RebekahOster]

Wonderful!! Unfortunately, with this method the information flows only one way. A work around is to add a column that will contain a link to the row you are looking at in the database. Here is an article that can help with that: www.exceldemy.com/excel-cell-function/ Let me know if you would be interested in a video about this!

[@RGKnightandSon]

@@RebekahOster Thanks for the reply and the link. A video relating to my question would be fantastic and save me a lot of head scratching.😉

[@stevegunn2660]

Brilliant I have a large database of my cd compilations and this works so well for me many many thanks. Now I have just have to import a version into access.

[@RebekahOster]

Hello! I'm so glad it works for you! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@markdavies4255]

Hi I love your search box I am looking for a way of searching data then have the ability to edit data can you help

[@RebekahOster]

Hi! I would make sure your data is an Excel Table and use the built in Filter buttons on the columns. 👍

[@gho_kay]

I can't search with numbers, is there a way around that?

[@potatocraftd6629]

Try wrapping the numbers inside double inverted commas (quotation marks) e.g. "10031"

[@siva8189]

Awesome explanation. Thank you :)

[@RebekahOster]

You're very welcome! 🎉

[@UKJ28]

Why used Isnumber formula and not Istext when school names in school names column doesn't have number. Pls explain

[@Barakat2010GMH]

everything in the tuttorial is very useful but i have a problem that excel 2021 doen't have CHOOSECOLS function , any walk around to overcome this problem?

[@RebekahOster]

You can just leave it out, and the function will return all the columns from the database. Then just hide the columns you don't want to see!

[@VitorSantos-t2m]

@Rebekah Oster if I want to use multiple tabs, can we use the same formula?

[@RebekahOster]

Yes! If you use structured references like I demonstrate, it should be very easy.

[@jamshedpathan2269]

Rebeka u made things so easy but i need ur help instead of School we can use Apartment and in apartment i want to find a certain room that will be in the row . i m trying to find the solution but failed. plz help.

[@PaulieVlogs]

By far the best solution I found on excel and it worked . Is it possible to populate just one row instead of all of them in the sheet with out VBA?

[@RebekahOster]

That's so great!! I'm sure there is. I would test out the TAKE function. It lets you choose a specific number of rows or columns to return from an array 😀

[@balewgeta7132]

I have one problem how to get filter function🥺🥺

[@ArunKumarK-f8f]

Hi Rebekah, I appreciate your clear explanation in this video. It was very helpful and informative. I have a question for you. How can I search for data in multiple worksheets in the same workbook, if the headers are not in the same order as in one sheet? Is there a way to do this easily? Thank you for your time and assistance.

[@RebekahOster]

Hello! This sounds like quite a challenge. My first idea is to create an intermediate sheet where you combine all of the data into one table and search from there. If you need help with this, you can schedule a call with me here: www.excelpowerup.com/offers/SJPzr8fY . Thanks for watching!

[@ryanholmgren8509]

When I try to implement this, I get a #Spill error. Does this only work when all the results are unique? I am trying to search for a quote number for example, and have it return all the lines on that quotation (more than 1).

[@nehalpatel4345]

Hey, Rebekah Thanks for the video. pl suggest how to avoid seeing entire table when there is no value in search bar.

[@RebekahOster]

Hi! Thanks for your question 🙂 Wrap this around the current formula: IF(B2="","", ) I've discovered that the ISBLANK function doesn't work for this, so you have to use ="". Let me know if it works!

[@nehalpatel4345]

@@RebekahOster Thanks Rebekah. It is working.

[@guardianofthemoon]

What if I want this exact functionality but I am creating a Dashboard, I don't want all that on the screen, I just want a search box that you can type a word in and it pulls up what matches

[@GarageCrafter]

Great tutorial. Many thanks.

[@josephpandagaruboy6977]

I can't filter in excel 2016 and 2010. No filter function available

[@RebekahOster]

Bummer! I’m sorry it didn’t work for you 😟

[@tanzilahmed361]

I have an issue with ActiveX control. I can't insert any object from this option, When I try to add the text box by click and draging it Its gives me error says "Can not insert object" Any solution for this?

[@arnyanderson4955]

Hi it's cool, you can use VSTACK for the headers instead of manually deleting 😮

[@GregCrawford-rp2oc]

Hi Rebekah. Can I use this using pivot tables?

[@RebekahOster]

Hi there! I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Do you want to be able to search the Pivot Table results?