I do a lot of searching in google spreadsheets. I use command f (I'm on a mac) to find the search results, and would love to be able to go down the search results list using keyboard shortcuts. To clarify, I'm looking for a way to go down the list of my matches from my search word by pressing a key on my keyboard. I want to be able to see a result and then move down the list to see another result. Do you know how to do that?
after you invoke search box try pressing Enter
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I don't know why but google is taking hand on my typing, like an autocomplete or suggestions, in cells, in sub-menus parameters. I can't type properly anymore, it blocks my imputs, and I have to press escape on each cell I'm filling. How to get that off ?!?
Autocomplete document properties is off and i'm running windows 7 Pro. Thank you
I want to create a custom google search for my site. My requirements are as follows:
I need a text box for search and two radio buttons(one for searching my site and other for searching web).
Depending on the radio button selected the results should be displayed.
I have a separate search results page ('/search').
I know how to create a simple google custom search. But this requirement of providing an option to search the site or web is a little tricky for me.
Please help
I was able to solve this issue.
I first created a search engine in https://cse.google.com/cse/ for my site and configured it to search the web in Basics tab-> Sites to Search option.
With this the search engine would search the entire web.
The code that I placed on the search results page had something this:
"gcse:searchresults-only as_sitesearch='site to search'"
This is a part of the code that google gives you.
Here the parameter 'as_sitesearch' will control which site is to be searched. When the radio button of Searching the web was selected I did not pass any value to 'as_sitesearch' and when the radio button of Searching my site was selected I passed the site url to 'as_sitesearch'.
This worked for me
I am trying to organize my paypal revenue information by copying it into a google spreadsheet.
However, paypal writes my payments as "=+ $16.00USD" and it can not be read in google because it thinks its a function giving me an "#ERROR~"
How would I go back solving this without manually editing all the numbers.
If you are trying to convert the string into currency IN EXCEL, copy the values into a worksheet and in the next column enter the following formula:
=VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"=+ $",""),"USD",""),CHAR(34),""))
IF you are trying to use Google Spreadsheet, submit a new question with Google spreadsheet and not excel as the tags.
Not sure whether you count this as "manual editing" but selecting the cells, Edit, Find and Replace..., Find =+, check Also search within formulae, Done should remove the #ERROR! message.
You might want to do something similar for $ and USD if to process the value/s in some way.
I built a website and I have a textfield where the user puts text to search on Google. When the user selects "Search", I want to open new tabs with the first 5 results of the Google search.
Is there any sort of URL parameter that Google provides to do this? For example, the second result of a specific search-phrase?
I haven't seen any way to do this.
You can do this only for the first result by adding btnI=1 to your URL. For example, http://google.com/search?btnI=1&q=rtf will take you to the first result (which is like clicking "I'm feeling Lucky!").
But if you think about it, opening up 5 unknown sites is a bad idea. What if one of those sites is a phishing site. Or it has some malware that will run on the user's machine?
When I look through Google's results, I only click on "reputable" sites. I think your idea is a bit risky. I would probably never use a service like this.
I'm trying to use Twitter search to find all mentions of a word that DIDN'T come from a "tweet this" button. I'm trying to build a stream of all brand mentions, but I don't want to sift through all of the retweets coming from our blog, which uses Twitter's button.
As a first step, I tried looking searching for all of the tweets that came from my personal account, filtering by source:txt. It showed all of the tweets I texted in. Then source:web. It showed all of the tweets I entered on twitter.com.
But then I tried searching with source:twitterbutton. Nothing. Then source:tweetbutton. Nothing. Same with source:tweet button. I tried searching through all of Twitter's documentation on the Tweet button to see what the source: attribute is, but couldn't find anything.
When I go through my stream of tweets without filtering for the source, I see some that say via Tweet Button so I know they exist, but I can't seem to find the right source: operator to find them automatically.
FYI: I'm using the Twitter Search API Method.
Bonus points to whoever can tell me how to negate a source (return everything EXCEPT that source)
The source is Tweet Button. The correct way to search for it will be source:tweet_button. Searching by source is very unreliable though (especially for multiword sources). Filtering by source requires that you include a keyword so you can't search just by source.
To negate a source you add a - in front like this google -source:web.
Update: Multi-word sources are now _ (underscore) separated.
I started tweeting with the fine folks over at Tweet Deck since their application lets you look for ones that came from the Tweet Button. It turns out I was only one character away. D'oh!
Use source:tweet_button to get only tweets from Tweet Buttons. And, as Abraham mentioned, all you need is a - before the parameter for it to negate that source. Example search.
Thanks for all the assistance! Especially from #DesktopDeck!