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What does the SEARCH function do?

Excel's SEARCH function - What does it do?

Excel's SEARCH function searches for a text string within another text string and returns the position at which it finds it.

If cell A1 contains Michael Gurner and cell B1 contains Gur, then:

=SEARCH(B1,A1)

Would return 9.

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