Find column number in excel

Find a Number in a Column / Workbook – Excel & Google Sheets

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This tutorial will demonstrate how to find a number in a column or workbook in Excel and Google Sheets.

Find a Number in a Column

The MATCH Function is useful when you want to find a number within a array of values.

This example will find 500 in column B.

The position of 500 is the 3rd value in the range and returns 3.

Find Row Number of Value Using ROW, INDEX and MATCH Functions

To find the row number of the value found, we can add the ROW and INDEX functions to the MATCH Function.

ROW and INDEX Functions

The MATCH Function returns 3 as we have seen from the previous example. The INDEX Function will then return the cell reference or value of the array position returned by the MATCH Function. The ROW function will then return the row of that cell reference.

Filter in Excel

We can find a specific number in an array of data by using a Filter in Excel.

1. Click in the Range you want to filter ex B3:B10.
2. In the Ribbon, select Home > Editing > Sort & Filter > Filter.

1. A drop-down list will be added to the first row in your selected range.

1. Click on the drop-down list to get a list of available options.

1. Type 500 in the search bar.

1. If your range has more than one value of 500, then both would show.

1. The rows that do not contain the required values are hidden, and the visible row headers are shown in BLUE.
2. To clear the filter, click on the drop-down and then click Clear Filter From “Values”.

To remove the filter entirely from the Range, select Home > Editing > Sort & Filter > Clear in the Ribbon.

Find Number in Workbook or Worksheet using FIND in Excel

We can look for values in Excel using the FIND functionality.

1. In your workbook, press Ctrl+F on the keyboard.

In the Ribbon, select Home > Editing > Find & Select.

1. Type in the value you wish to find.

1. Click Find Next.

1. Continue to click Find Next to move through all the available values in the Worksheet.
2. Click Find All to find all the instances of the value in the worksheet.

1. Amend the Within from Sheet to Workbook and click Find All

1. All the matching values will appear in the results shown.

Find a Number – MATCH Function in Google Sheets

The MATCH Function works the same in Google Sheets as it does in Excel.

Find Row Number of Value Using ROW, INDEX and MATCH Functions in Google Sheets

The ROW, INDEX and MATCH Functions works the same in Google Sheets as it does in Excel.

Filter in Google Sheets

We can find a specific number in an array of data by using Filter in Google Sheets.

1. Click in the Range you want to filter ex B3:B10.
2. In the Menu, select Data > Create a filter

1. In the Search bar, type in the value you wish to filter on.

1. If your range has more than one value of 500, then both would show.
2. The rows that do not contain the required values are hidden.
3. To clear the filter, click on the drop-down, click Select All” and then click

To remove the filter entire, in the Menu, select Data > Turn off Filter.

Find Number in Workbook or Worksheet using FIND in Google Sheets

We can look for values in Google Sheets using the FIND functionality.

1. In your workbook, press Ctrl+F on the keyboard.

1. Type in the value you wish to find.
2. All the matching values in the current sheet will be highlighted, with the first one being selected as shown below.

1. Select More Options.

1. Click Find.
2. The first instance of the value will be found. Click Find again to go to the next value and continue to click Find to find all the matching values in the workbook.
3. Click Done to exit out of the Find and Replace Dialog Box.

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COLUMN Function Examples – Excel & Google Sheets

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This Tutorial demonstrates how to use the Excel COLUMN Function in Excel to look up the column number.

COLUMN Function Overview

The COLUMN Function Returns the column number of a cell reference.

To use the COLUMN Excel Worksheet Function, select a cell and type:

(Notice how the formula inputs appear)

COLUMN function Syntax and inputs:

reference – Cell reference that you want to determine the column # of.

COLUMN Function – Single Cell

The COLUMN Function returns the column number of the given cell reference.

COLUMN Function with no Reference

If no cell reference is provided, the COLUMN Function will return the column number where the formula is entered

COLUMN Function with a Range

You can also input entire ranges of cells into the COLUMN Function. When doing so, the COLUMN Function behaves differently in Excel 2019 (or earlier) vs. Excel 365 or newer version of Excel.

Excel 2019 or older

In previous versions of Excel, the COLUMN Function returns an array containing the column values of all the cells in the range, but only displays the first result in the cell.

If you click the cell containing the formula and press F9, all the results are displayed in curly brackets as an array.

Excel 365

However, Excel 365 (and newer versions of Excel, presumably) comes with a spill range feature. Here, the COLUMN Function will return the columns of all cells in the range, “spilled” into the next cells.

COLUMN Function in Google Sheets

The COLUMN Function works exactly the same in Google Sheets as in Excel:

Additional Notes

Use the COLUMN Function to return the column number of a cell reference. What if you want the column letter of a cell reference? Use this complicated formula instead:

This formula calculates the column number with the COLUMN Function and calculates the address of a cell in row 1 of that column using the ADDRESS Function. Then it uses the SUBSTITUTE Function to remove the row number (1), so all that remains is the column letter.

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How to find the column number in Excel?

In Excel, column headers are represented by a letter A, B, C, . And when we reach column Z, the next column is AA.

And so on until you reach the final column; XFD. This means column number . 16384 😲😲😲

But how to find those numbers? There is two methods.

Method 1: Change column headers from general options

1. Go to the File menu
2. Then, you open the Options menu
3. Then you go to the Formulas section.
4. And there you check the option Reference Style R1C1

Reference R1C1 means that each cell is identified by numbers. And then, the columns headers are numbers

FYI, you should know that it was the only way to identify the cell references in the first Excel version. Fortunately, the letters for identifying columns were added later to make cell references easier to read 😉

This method isn’t the one I will recommend because not only the column headers have changed, but also the reference in your formulae.

As you can see, it’s not easy to understand such a formula and nearly impossible to visualize the absolute or relative reference

Method 2: Use a formula to display the column number

But the simplest technique is to use the COLUMN function 😀👍

And that’s it! This function returns the column number of the cell where is the formula. This function doesn’t need argument.

In this example, we know that our table contains 44 columns (46 — 2)

The ROW() function isn’t so helpful because it is enough to read the row number directly in the row headers.

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Excel column number from column name

How to get the column number from column name in Excel using Excel macro?

7 Answers 7

I think you want this?

Column Name to Column Number

Edit: Also including the reverse of what you want

Column Number to Column Name

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Like if i have salary field at the very top lets say at cell C(1,1) now if i alter the file and shift salary column to some other place say F(1,1) then i will have to modify the code so i want the code to check for Salary and find the column number and then do rest of the operations according to that column number.

In such a case I would recommend using .FIND See this example below

While you were looking for a VBA solution, this was my top result on google when looking for a formula solution, so I’ll add this for anyone who came here for that like I did:

Excel formula to return the number from a column letter (From @A. Klomp’s comment above), where cell A1 holds your column letter(s):

As the indirect function is volatile, it recalculates whenever any cell is changed, so if you have a lot of these it could slow down your workbook. Consider another solution, such as the ‘code’ function, which gives you the number for an ASCII character, starting with ‘A’ at 65. Note that to do this you would need to check how many digits are in the column name, and alter the result depending on ‘A’, ‘BB’, or ‘CCC’.

Excel formula to return the column letter from a number (From this previous question How to convert a column number (eg. 127) into an excel column (eg. AA), answered by @Ian), where A1 holds your column number:

Note that both of these methods work regardless of how many letters are in the column name.

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