Google Sheets - Search, QUERY function

Learn how to create search box in Google Sheets using QUERY function. We'll create basic search for exact match, then search for text that contains the query and finally create a search that will find matches to multiple words in any order.
#googlesheets #search

[@ParthaDas-wy6ps]

I've been doing this search problem for two days now, and finally, after watching your video, I found a solution to my problem.Thank You Sir.

[@uncertainAuthor]

This was exactly what I was looking for to try and put a search function into a spreadsheet I've been working on! Thank you so much for sharing this easy to follow and informative tutorial ♥

[@arnellcarmichael635]

Absolutely brilliant tutorial my guy! Very easy to follow, and educational! Thanks for putting this video together, and it definitely helped me save time searching data within my CRM! Best - Arnell

[@dfilliernl]

Fantastic tutorial ... you just saved me and my team a ~huge~ amount of time and effort. Thanks for taking the time to produce and share this tutorial.

[@Azzz01s]

Love it how implanted the split them join to create such a loop! Amazing idea, more to it I've adjusted the AND to OR too show all data in single words, thanks a lot, gonna be watching more and more of your vids to learm more too, never thought SQL could be such fun and amazing language and excitingly challenging to use to help me out big time with my needs 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Azzz01s]

@Ömer Faruk Akkaya @21:12 see the AND after JOIN! ... change the AND to be OR, so by this the query will turn the results to anything that contains any of the words/letters you put in your search criteria. if you put DRESS BABY it will show you any results containing ANY of these two words and not necessarily containing both, hope it cleared for you ;)

[@amoeudaemonic6435]

Thank you for the tutorial! Easy to follow, but I also learned some functions of formulas as well! We created a searchable database of flavors and nicotine strengths for our vape store with this. You've given my workers a nice cheat sheet for sure! Thanks again! 🙂

[@andresleon8076]

THANKS! I've been through many of your videos looking for something like this.. Really Helpful

[@Mikarevival]

Great Job!!! Thank you so much!! I wanted to ask you to do something like this....but you had the Idea before I could ask!! Thanks!!!

[@user-ji2pr9js4j]

Thanks for clear explanation. You are wonderful tutor.

[@malikastar9265]

Your method of teaching makes everything look easy, you're my most important resource of learning google sheets, thank you so much !

[@HarrisonBennett]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks man

[@conteudoanimal]

Congrats for your channel ... it is helping me a lot ... keep the great job man !

[@btrzanne]

very helpful and informative! thank you so much!!!

[@natew]

Thank you for all your hard work generating this great content!

[@arielzabatecuizon5147]

Thanks so much for this very instructive video..more power to help us newbie out here!!

[@varioII]

This is awesome, just started using this. Wondering how to handle B2 being empty - split function doesn't like it. I'm trying to include ALL results in the query if B2 is blank?

[@quangminhdang4404]

the function query is good, I like it! and thank you so much for sharing this easy function.

[@rachitm109]

Love it! Thanks bro! This is so good!

[@nikhilgala25]

very much informative. ecplained so well.nice tutorial. thanks

[@mrkfong]

Thanks bro, big help!

[@adindasyarah1163]

I Love You So Much

[@myhelpdesk6414]

really nice tutorial sir. you are great sir thanks..

[@JMPatel-nk8gr]

As always absolutely fantastic

[@keerthanab1103]

Very useful class. You taught how to use query function with examples of region and reps. Can we have search option along with regions and sales reps. 🤔

[@lazalazarevic6192]

The last part was so good! Thanks, man. Is it possible to make it more dynamic? Like selecting the column we wanna search?

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

Sure. Just make a VLOOKUP with a helper table that maps the column selection to column letter and use it in your select statement. Or at least that's one way :)

[@MrTATT-he5bm]

Good stuff! thank you so much :)

[@stylelife7705]

helpful content thank you !

[@anurajms]

thanks for the video .really appreciate your help

[@chhenglykandal3768]

Thank You Sir from Cambodia and this help me a lot. would u mind create Query related to Bar Chart report or Graph Analysis in the next video? Thank You.

[@brighnquisitive6217]

You're awesome, my friend

[@Allen-L-Canada]

Great! In a drop-down can you allow multiple selections instead of only one?

[@pramodnair7697]

VERY VERY USEFUL VIDEO, THANKS

[@pooranikannan7634]

Thank you soo much! You are a life saver :)

[@PencilBoxID]

Thank for the tutorial

[@mayuraakhade7275]

This was exactly what I was looking for Thank you for share this tutorial

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@sureshshah8508]

i have used this and thank you for this video

[@lauracru]

Your help has been invaluable. Thank you

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

Thank You!

[@francisabellana780]

Thank you so much!

[@angrybobr365]

At the beginning of the video, I was looking at it and thinking: "Oh...boring, every newbie knows that"... but later, close to the end... the only words in my head were: "What a tricky mo***fu***, u got me!" Big thanx for that tutorial.

[@CloudPower]

Excellent ! Very useful.

[@m.kamranbaloch6214]

Perfect video i have ever seen Thankyou so much

[@mansaha9288]

Thanks for the apostrophes info

[@sergiomira741]

This is spectacular, simply Amazing!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!! Greetings from Colombia friend

[@LAQUABI]

This is genius!

[@monicamusial4665]

This is a great tool and you explained it very well! Thank you!! I just have a question. Is there a way for the search results to be blank when the search drop-down is empty?

[@BlueStarsConsulting]

Yeah. I have the same question. How can you have all the options show when the field is blank?

[@mani2care]

Really nice for me to get it resolved my issue but same thing how can i do it for multiple sheet to fetch the same result

[@shammetje]

this helped me find the solution in the first few seconds of the video. thanks

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

Excellent!

[@jerikhodejesus8570]

thank you so much for sharing. I just want to ask to you if what is your advise to control the simultaneous flashing of result from the query using the QUERY ONE function when the google sheet users had type their own searching data in the search box at the same time? Thank you very much

[@carlosharper5046]

What would the query be to search multiple tabs/sheets?

[@christelquimbo1995]

Thank you so much for this tutorial.

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nicolaharding7398]

Thank you SO much!

[@iftaminka2804]

I did this tutorial and it's amazingly help me completed my final task, Thanks! But I've no idea how to create this when I've few different data in multiple sheets, looking for it

[@DavidMarcadet]

Very usefull, thx

[@brethrencemetery4965]

This was a great explanation. If I wanted to edit one of these records, how would I either edit it here and update the main sheet, or how would I like to that record so I could edit it in the main sheet?

[@duz2ht]

There's anyway to make the results of the search to carry the text formatting used in the data? Awesome tutorial.

[@unanosininvierno1783]

Hello there. I have a long log of footage in spreadsheets. The scene descriptions are in cells that contain a significant amount of text and when I search for a word, I am always shown the whole cell, but not the word itself, which in my case is a bit of a problem. Is there a way to get a search result that is more detailed than just the cell where the particular text string is? This would be very helpful, thanks!

[@bobykumar3960]

again.... you are "THE" SOLUTION....

[@jonathanprunier2368]

Very useful ! Thanks a lot you are very competent

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

Glad it was helpful!

[@9394sing]

Learn Google Spreadsheets thanks a lot, great video and very useful for my work

[@DuaaAbudra]

Very informative Thank you

[@Juan_Albor_Cardenas]

Great video helped alot with me searching but I have a question how can I do this search to entire workbook or multiple worksheets? Can you please help?

[@abhinavm8871]

Really thank you Buddy

[@kulvinder8211]

Sir U are great person

[@cheewurz]

Brilliant!

[@shadabchaudhary5632]

Good job 👍

[@ArkyTeeVee]

Thank you so much.

[@deafmultilingual8527]

how do you also pull through the hyperlink in the data sheet as well? So say your skirts has a hyperlink to open up a video and you need this hyperlink brought through so that you could click skirt and watch the video?

[@jonayego]

Wow, this is great. A million thanks. Please, supposing you want to generate a cost for two different items, how do you go about??

[@pinnibyp3950]

Thank you so much!!! you help us to work much easier ! May I ask if query function can also import both value and format? seem like it only import value not include format of that cell.

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

It only imports the value. You can specify what format you want for the output, but it's not going to pick up the original formatting. Watch my QUERY function series for more details.

[@pinnibyp3950]

@@ExcelGoogleSheets Thank you, I'll check whole series !!

[@pichit.raetai]

wow. . thank you

[@ldickens86]

thanks for this great video. Is there a way to make the search check different tabs on the form. I want to search data in column A on multiple tabs rather than just one tab. thank you

[@marcobanderas3306]

Both If and Indirect will do the trick (+ filtering of null values), e.g query(Indirect(*here comes drop-down with sheet names*&"!"Range") or QUERY(INDIRECT(A2&"!A2:D"),"select *",1).

[@likemantv]

Hello, So I want to do a thing, when I search for example: an apple, it will check all the lists and when it finds the word apple, it will show it under the search bar (like in the video, but it will check all lists). Is that possible? Can you help me?

[@dejo095]

very helpful, thanks

[@jeevankurian204]

Awesome tutorial! Is there any way we can edit the searched results? So that it reflects the original sheet

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

No, not formula results.

[@annekristelmangarin3196]

Can I do the search on the whole array instead of just one column?

[@tahanawfal]

to make it search for multi columns: _=QUERY(data,"SELECT * WHERE D LIKE ""%"&B2&"%"" AND (C LIKE ""%"&B3&"%"" OR B LIKE ""%"&B3&"%"") ",1)_ notice that AND & OR are logic gates and you should change between them if there is no result

[@SamuraiJack44]

The Real MVP

[@freezebanana1865]

This man needs to get pray for his kindness

[@selvarajandiappa3143]

Thanks, very helpful. Following most of your tutoring.. Just want to find out why after search result when you edit any data, all search data disappears and the formula reruns errer

[@cheewurz]

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[@natanaelbby]

I love this tutorial, your tutorial is very great 🔥. I just using it to my data and it works, but I just confused and want to ask if i want to using this formula to search a unique code number from my list, is it using a same code? Or there's different code?

[@natanaelbby]

Because when Im using this code for searching number it didn't shown up the data

[@ricseeds4835]

Genius!

[@indyshome]

Thank you so much

[@mariovelasquez1265]

What if I want my selected columns to be two how would I type my formula

[@JaredPlane]

In the "Search Contains Words" when there's nothing in the search field it comes up with #VALUE!. How do I get it to display everything like at 9:20?

[@jaimeenriquezvivanco1389]

Wrap JOIN(...) with ISERROR(JOIN(...), "")

[@chhansambath5244]

hi! in this case we can make the same cell to search in more in column A,B ,c...? ( 1 single cell can search by name, phone number or date)

[@NinhTran09]

🙌🏻

[@iosifsimiryan4923]

I would like to be able to search from the Google Form Drop Down box. Is it possible? I want to be able to open the form, populated by a record from Excel spreadsheet I use for the form

[@edmarcabilingdolar9978]

Hey there, can i ask question? About your video? Is it possible that if i can and search function on specific sheet it can able to update the data also ?

[@user-zp2if5yb5o]

Hello, this was very helpful but I was wondering how to do something. Is there a way to search for things in multiple columns at once?

[@mahaestra8748]

NICE!!

[@prashantkannake1319]

Thank you very much

[@StevenSeiller]

🙏 Very helpful seeing how to escape the content apostrophe with the double double-quotes. Is that the only practical way to handle that? In SQL, the content is escaped so that it won’t cause this problem. Is there a way to escape the content in Sheets query?

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

I wasn't able to find anything. If anyone knows I'm interested too. That being said you could use SUBSTITUTE function to replace double quotes in your data with double double quotes and then it would work like escape.

[@StevenSeiller]

Learn Google Spreadsheets Thanks. I was thinking of maybe using SUBSTITUTE ‘ for its CHAR equivalent to avoid the problem with content, but I have yet to try it.

[@joesilvaproductions]

Is it Possible to have the search go over multiple inventory tabs?

[@TheArctomian]

How did you add the keymoments like that in the description?

[@rosabelguiang4187]

Hi, I’ve used the following formula like yours in order for me to achieve what I need. So I have the data from the database sheet where in I get to find things on column D =QUERY(Database!$A:$T,”SELECT A,D,O,P,R,S WHERE 1=1 “&”AND LOWER (D) LIKE LOWER(‘%” &JOIN(“%’) AND LOWER (D) LIKE LOWER(‘%”,SPLIT(B1,” “))&”%’)”,1) Now, May I ask what can I do if I also want to search for data in Column A, those data contain numbers. What formula can I add to the above? Really appreciate every videos! Thank you!

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

When you search for numbers you don't need to put the value in single quotes. So for example: WHERE A = 'Keyword' WHERE A = 4

[@SiamLiaqat]

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[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

Thank You!

[@snowman3130]

Can I hire you for a project?

[@matthewnguyen2606]

Hey brother I loved this video, in the small chance you see this, what if there is typos? It seems to break the query thank you

[@alpabanker1220]

Hi, what formula or function can be used to fetch two letter US state data which is in a column in another tab in the same workbook. However, in that column some states are mentioned in two characters(Short abbreviations) while some is spelled in their full form. I have a third tab which has only two columns. One with fully spelled state names and next columns contain two letter abbreviations. So we need all data in another tab in two characters only. How do I put the formula to say that if in 'State " column there are two characters bring that exact same data in this tab, however if it is more than two characters, go to the third tab and search from the state name and relevant abbreviations, and finally bring back two character state name. Please help

[@realitysoul7444]

Is there a way to have the query function, pull from two or even three different columns in seperate search cells? So example I want to search the Location Column (E column), The Job Column (F Column), the Availability Column (G column), and I want each Search (location, Job, Availability) to be in their own separate search cells as drop down lists. So in Cell A5 is drop down search function for Location, in B5 is Drop down Search Function for Job, and C5 is Drop Down Search for Availability. I want to give the searcher several options on how to find the Artists that fits either one or search parameters.

[@marcobanderas3306]

You can try something like this (where A1=1st dropdown and A2=2nd dropdown). QUERY('Raw Data'!A1:E, "select * Where A is not null "&"IF(A1="AllResults",""," AND Lower(A) = Lower('"&A1&"') ")&IF(A2="AllResults",""," AND Lower(B) = Lower('"&A2&"')"),1,)

[@marcobanderas3306]

Found Simpler solution based on AND Statements =QUERY(Your Data Range,"SELECT * WHERE E LIKE ""%"&A1&"%"" AND F LIKE ""%"&A2&"%"" AND G LIKE ""%"&A3&"%""",1). Also, you can supplement those ANDs with ORs so that you don't get blanks/errors.

[@rosabelguiang4187]

@@marcobanderas3306 Hello, can I ask you questions?

[@shanekatsoolis8434]

Can you Please add UNIQUE (or something) so that my Hyperlinks are returned intact and still function as hyperlinks? Queary returns them as useless data. Thanks for the great tutorials

[@katgiardinadms274]

Thank you! Is there a way to lock the search box so that when one person enters a search it does not filter down the data for other users looking at the sheet?

[@ExcelGoogleSheets]

No, but you should be able to user FILTER VIEWS to get something similar to what you want.