Highlight Cells Containing Search Terms Across All Sheets

[lneidorf]

Hi there.

I've been working with an excellent piece of code posted (reproduced below) on thespreadsheetguru.com, here:
https://www.thespreadsheetguru.com/the-code-vault/2014/4/21/find-all-instances-with-vba

This code searches a sheet for text and highlights the cells containing matches.

I'm trying to adapt it in the following ways:

1. How can I get this to go through ALL sheets in the active workbook (and not just the active sheet)?
2. Rather than hard-coding a single search criteria, how can I pass the contents of a range of cells (the terms contained in cells B2:B11 on a sheet entitled "Search Terms")?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

Sub HighlightFindValues()

'PURPOSE: Highlight all cells containing a specified values
'SOURCE: www.TheSpreadsheetGuru.com

Dim fnd As String, FirstFound As String
Dim FoundCell As Range, rng As Range
Dim myRange As Range, LastCell As Range

'What value do you want to find (must be in string form)?
  fnd = "Kentucky"

Set myRange = ActiveSheet.UsedRange
Set LastCell = myRange.Cells(myRange.Cells.Count)
Set FoundCell = myRange.Find(what:=fnd, after:=LastCell)

'Test to see if anything was found
  If Not FoundCell Is Nothing Then
    FirstFound = FoundCell.Address
  Else
    GoTo NothingFound
  End If

Set rng = FoundCell

'Loop until cycled through all unique finds
  Do Until FoundCell Is Nothing
    'Find next cell with fnd value
      Set FoundCell = myRange.FindNext(after:=FoundCell)
    
    'Add found cell to rng range variable
      Set rng = Union(rng, FoundCell)
    
    'Test to see if cycled through to first found cell
      If FoundCell.Address = FirstFound Then Exit Do
      
  Loop

'Highlight Found cells yellow
  rng.Interior.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0)
  
Exit Sub

'Error Handler
NothingFound:
  MsgBox "No values were found in this worksheet"

End Sub

 

[lapta301]

Hi Rick

I've now worked out how to find the word within multiple words in a cell.

It would be helpful to know how many have been found but not a major issue if it causes too much time and effort.

Regards from England