How buggy is Excel.Find?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I think I've found another bug. Please get the xlsx file in
http://www.windwardreports.com/temp/FindBug.zip and do a Find like:
rtn = rng.Find("<wr:", startAfter, XlFindLookIn.xlValues, XlLookAt.xlPart,
XlSearchOrder.xlByRows, XlSearchDirection.xlNext, false, false, Type.Missing);

where text is rng and startAfter are both the single cell [2,4] - rtn comes
back as the cell [3,1] - what is going on here?

If this is another bug in Find then is there a way to get a list of all the
bugs in find - or is it so buggy that I should just walk the cells myself and
read the text from each? (Yes I am frustrated at the number of bugs that I
have hit in find - sorry.)

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[David Thielen]

ps - by [2,4] I mean D2.

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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

where text is rng and startAfter are both the single cell [2,4] - rtn
comes back as the cell [3,1] - what is going on here?

Do you mean that the search range (rng) is composed of only one cell? And
both rng and StartAfter refers to that single cell?

Would you help to check if it is the same problem as the post
"Excel.Range.Find() looks outside the range for XlSearchDirection.x" that
you posted at 2007-12-07?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/managed/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.publi
c.office.developer.com.add_ins&mid=0c7b31c7-04a6-49ee-8260-9bfbb3f54c5a&sloc
=en-us

In that post, I explained the known issue of Range.Find as:
"Range.Find method finds the cells outside the specified range when the
range is composed of one cell in Excel Interop. The workaround is to do the
find with custom code when there is only one cell."

I am sorry again for the inconveniences caused by it. If you feel it
critical, please contact Microsoft Product Support directly. Since it's a
known issue, the support incident will be free of charge.

Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[David Thielen]

I think that is it - thanks.

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Hello Dave,

where text is rng and startAfter are both the single cell [2,4] - rtn
comes back as the cell [3,1] - what is going on here?

Do you mean that the search range (rng) is composed of only one cell? And
both rng and StartAfter refers to that single cell?

Would you help to check if it is the same problem as the post
"Excel.Range.Find() looks outside the range for XlSearchDirection.x" that
you posted at 2007-12-07?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/managed/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.publi
c.office.developer.com.add_ins&mid=0c7b31c7-04a6-49ee-8260-9bfbb3f54c5a&sloc
=en-us

In that post, I explained the known issue of Range.Find as:
"Range.Find method finds the cells outside the specified range when the
range is composed of one cell in Excel Interop. The workaround is to do the
find with custom code when there is only one cell."

I am sorry again for the inconveniences caused by it. If you feel it
critical, please contact Microsoft Product Support directly. Since it's a
known issue, the support incident will be free of charge.

Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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