Google Spreadsheets lacks "find"

Posted by admin, Wed Jun 07 03:24:06 UTC 2006

I signed up for my Google Spreadsheets account yesterday, and last night I received my invitation.

Since I was using Excel at work for something, this morning I figured I could quickly try it out. And I bumped into a pretty serious limitation in functionality almost immediately. My spreadsheet contains about 1000 rows (it’s a dump of a database table that I need to analyse), and I needed to “find” instances of a certain string in the sheet. Guess what? Google Spreadsheets doesn’t do “find” yet. :-p

Update. See the comments below. It’s the documentation that is lacking.

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  1. Trever 06.07.06 / 14PM
    Not having seen the google spreadsheet thing myself . . . if the string is on the page somewhere and not hidden in some javascript, maybe the browser's search function would work?
  2. lori 06.08.06 / 03AM
    Double :-p Ok, I'm an idiot. The browser "find" function does seem to work. Interesting that the Google Spreadsheet help documention does not mention this fact. Searching their documentation for "find" yields zero results.

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