Use wildcards in Excel to search for content

Find all the persons surnamed Zhang

1. As shown in the following figure, I have a table. I want to find the table named "Zhang.

2. Select the cell to be searched and press "ctrl + F"

3. In the pop-up "search and replace", click "options", as shown in the figure.

4. In the cell match below, we select it.

5. Enter "sheets *" in the input box (no quotation marks) and click "Search".

6. Then, you will see that all the persons with the "surname Zhang" have been selected.

Find all the people with only two words in the name of "Zhang"

1. In addition, how can we find out all the people with only two characters in the name of "Zhang?

2. Select the cell column and press ctrl + f. In the displayed dialog box, enter ?" (Do not use quotation marks)

3. In the "search and replace" dialog box that appears next, click "options" and check before "cell matching".

4. Then, you will find that all the "surnamed Zhang" people with only two characters have been selected.

The Yunqi community editor reminds you that in the wildcard? And ,? It represents 0-1 characters, and * the code contains 0-n characters. I hope you can remember it.