Discover the Latest Super Find Features

We are excited to announce a significant update to the Macabacus Super Find tool*! Super Find is a powerful replacement for Excel’s native Find tool, allowing you to find almost anything in your workbooks – not just text or specific formats.

The new updates to the Super Find tool further elevate Excel’s native Find functionality, offering unprecedented flexibility and precision in your searches. Whether you’re locating specific formulas, data types, or formats, Super Find is designed to make your search experience more efficient and effective. 

In this post, we dive into the new capabilities and detail ways in which Super Find gives you a significant advantage over the native Find tool.

*Requires Macabacus version 9.6.5 or newer

What’s New in Super Find?

Intuitive Task Pane

When you select Super Find, a streamlined task pane appears on the right-hand side, categorizing search features into intuitive groups. Whether you’re looking for values, dates, or formulas, everything is neatly organized for easy access.

Advanced Search Capabilities

• Formula Searches: Locate specific formulas, such as margin ratio calculations or growth projections (beta), hidden within your workbook. Super Find makes it simple to identify these key financial model drivers.
• Range Searches: Discover print areas, used ranges, named ranges, and Macabacus-linked cells effortlessly.
• Format Searches: Easily identify different types of formats like merged cells.
• Data Searches: Locate specific data types, such as pivot tables.

Integrated Explore Mode

The previous Explorer Pane has been phased out and consolidated into the current Super Find tool. Now, by selecting Explore Mode, you can navigate key features of any workbook, worksheet, or all open workbooks. View used ranges, graphics, images, charts, and numeric inputs with ease.

Advantages of Super Find Over Excel’s Native Find

• Seamlessly navigate between multiple worksheets or workbooks to find content that meets your criteria.
• Quickly select all results to perform follow-up actions like formatting.
• Search within a selection, selected sheets, the active workbook, or all open workbooks.
• Display search results in a non-intrusive, convenient task pane.
• Simultaneously search within values, formulas, comments, hyperlinks, and more.

Conclusion

Super Find is your go-to solution for efficient and effective searches for practically anything in your workbook. Unlike the native Find capabilities which are limited to text and specific formats, Super Find allows you to search for text, formulas, dates, formats, charts, and much more. Be sure to upgrade to the latest version of Macabacus today to try out the new Super Find capabilities and thus leverage the full potential of the enhanced Super Find tool.