Hi Omoghene, I find the most straightforward way to achieve this kind of thing is to use the match function that Excel provides, wrapped up in your own function:
Public Function FindString(ByVal rng As Range, ByVal str As String) As Integer On Error Resume Next FindString = Application.WorksheetFunction.Match(str, rng, 0) If Err.Number <> 0 Then FindString = 0 End If End Function Assuming that the data you provided is in cells A1:L1, running the following code will produce the correct result of 5 Public Sub Test() Debug.Print FindString(Range("A1", "L1"), "Jan") End Sub Regards, Chris Spicer www.Technicana.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 5,200 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---