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Range.FindNext Method

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Excel Developer Reference

Continues a search that was begun with the Find method. Finds the next cell that matches those same conditions and returns a Range object that represents that cell. Doesn’t affect the selection or the active cell.

Syntax

expression.FindNext(After)

expression   A variable that represents a Range object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
After Optional Variant The cell after which you want to search. This corresponds to the position of the active cell when a search is done from the user interface. Note that After must be a single cell in the range. Remember that the search begins after this cell; the specified cell isn’t searched until the method wraps back around to this cell. If this argument isn’t specified, the search starts after the cell in the upper-left corner of the range.

Return Value
Range

Remarks

When the search reaches the end of the specified search range, it wraps around to the beginning of the range. To stop a search when this wraparound occurs, save the address of the first found cell, and then test each successive found-cell address against this saved address.

Example

This example finds all cells in the range A1:A500 that contain the value 2 and changes their values to 5.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  With Worksheets(1).Range("a1:a500")
    Set c = .Find(2, lookin:=xlValues)
    If Not c Is Nothing Then
        firstAddress = c.Address
        Do
            c.Value = 5
            Set c = .FindNext(c)
        Loop While Not c Is Nothing And c.Address <> firstAddress
    End If
End With

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