Damien,
thanks for your comment.
The workbook is indeed designed to simply search for a string and "jump" to the first entry. It does not change the order of the data, it just automatically scrolls down the table to the first entry that matches the search string.
What you are asking for would require either sorting or filtering the table according to the string entered. Of course this is possible, but it is out of scope of this article and I can’t answer this in a comment. I hope for your understanding. I will put your idea on my list of possible future blog posts. No promise if or when I will write the article, though.
Your second request needs some changes in the workbook. If you want to search a string within a matrix (i.e. several columns) instead of an array (one column), one single MATCH formula is not enough. MATCH searches within one column and returns the row of the first occurrence of your search string (or #N/A if not found).
However, you need 2 results: the row and the column of the first data entry that matches your search string. Thus, you have to do a MATCH on every column of your data. Then you have to find the first column where this MATCH returns a number instead of #N/A. This is the column where your search string is found for the first time and the result of the MATCH formula is the position of the entry in this column.
