How to get coords of cell in google sheets?

Question

Is there any possibility to get the coords of cell that contains a value?

example: result

in this example the result is "C5" How to get this? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

In your situation, how about the custom function using Google Apps Script as follows?

Sample script:

Please copy and paste the following script to the script editor of Spreadsheet and save the script.

const SAMPLE = text => SpreadsheetApp
  .getActiveSheet()
  .createTextFinder(text)
  .matchEntireCell(true)
  .findAll()
  .map(r => r ? r.getA1Notation() : "")
  .join(",");

• In order to use this, please put a formula of =SAMPLE("Text1") to a cell as the custom function. By this, the found cell is returned as the A1Notation.

References:

• Custom Functions in Google Sheets
• Class TextFinder

Answer 2

For a formula, you could try something like this:

=ArrayFormula(textjoin(",",true,if(A:C=D5,address(row(A:C),column(A:C),4),)))

assuming you want to search columns A to C. If the formula is on the same sheet, you couldn't search the whole sheet because you would get a circular reference error, but you could put it on a different sheet:

=ArrayFormula(textjoin(",",true,if(Sheet3!A:Z=A2,address(row(Sheet3!A:Z),column(Sheet3!A:Z),4),)))