How to Search in Google Sheets on Android

Written by Nicole Levine, MFA

This wikiHow teaches you how to search for a string of text in Google Sheets on an Android phone or tablet.

Steps

1
Open Google Sheets on your Android. It’s the green icon with a white table inside. You’ll usually find it in the app drawer.
2
Tap the sheet you want to search. Its contents will appear.

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3
Tap ⁝. It’s at the top-right corner of Sheets.
4
Tap Find and replace…. It’s the first item in the menu.
5
Tap the Find… box. It’s at the top of the screen. This brings up your Android’s keyboard.
6
Type the text you want to find. Sheets will begin searching as soon as you start typing. The number next to "Find” displays the count of matching results.
7
Tap
and
to move through the results. The spreadsheet will automatically recenter to show you where the text is found.
- To replace a search result with something else, tap Replace with…, type the new text, then tap REPLACE.
- Tap the back button to exit “Find and replace.”
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