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I was using ctrl-F in an excel spreadsheet and wanted to find a name. I typed in ctrl-F and typed in "ALI" It showed me everything with the sequence of letters A-L-I. Like Calibration and Alina. I can't even imagine looking up the acronym "IT" or looking for the word "me". Is there a way to tell ctrl-F to show only the letters I've typed? I know you used to be able to use quotation marks to do that, but that did not work. I have no option in ctrl-F or in ctrl-H to use regex. This seems to me to be a very common thing to try. Like searching for the word "to" and not spending "today", "tonight", and most of "tomorrow" sifting through what you don't want.
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Hi, Before you type>Ali>press the spacebar to move one space>Then after you type>Ali>press the spacebar to move one space. Then press ctrl+F