Multi dimensional arrays searching workbooks - google Spreadsheets

Question

I'm currently working with Google Spreadsheets and having couple of problems with text searches. In particular I have to overcome the 'range' limit with text functions like find, match etc. (I want to input matrixes as 'range' but they take just vectors). I've seen that many people do this on Excel scripting in VBA. is there any adaptation of something like thisvba find =find() script for spreadsheets?

The first section is the one which concerns me: finding text and selecting the cell (I have to pick the value 2 rows below the cell containing text).

Thanks beforehand guys ;)

Answer 1

The Microsoft Excel OFFSET function returns a reference to a range that is offset a number of rows and columns from another range or cell. syntax:

OFFSET( range, rows, columns, [height], [width] )

where

1. range is the starting range from which the offset will be applied.
2. rows is the number of rows to apply as the offset to the range. This can be a positive or negative number.
3. columns is the number of columns to apply as the offset to the range. This can be a positive or negative number.
4. height is optional. It is the number of rows that you want the returned range to be. If this parameter is omitted, it is assumed to be the height of range.
5. width is optional. It is the number of columns that you want the returned range to be. If this parameter is omitted, it is assumed to be the width of range.