How to get Find to actually find what I type in and not a million variations that use those letters somehow? (Ver 7.4.1.2 on Win7 64bit)

[RichardWall]

As if they don’t know about this. This has probably been suggested to them thousands of times over the years and they ignored it.

[RichardWall]

It is Edit > Find and Replace Ctrl+H. It is not necessary to replace anything, use Find Next, Find Previous, or Find All

On believe me I tried.

[sokol92]

@RichardWall

As if they don’t know about this. This has probably been suggested to them thousands of times over the years and they ignored it.

By the way, in MS Excel (at least until Excel 2019) there is no such possibility. And regular expression search in UI is not supported.

[mikekaganski]

… and the very first time ever, when this proposal was made “over the years”, was tdf#127174 in 2019, which was confirmed, and the UX decision was “let’s do it”. And there was not a single duplicate neither before, or after, showing how important this feature is for users who use Calc properly.