From: Saumya Negi Date: 2010-06-04T07:21:39+09:00 Subject: Re: find whole words in excel Though it's too late for the reply, It could help others in future: With reference to http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/search/label/excel -> Loading the Win32OLE Constants section, I could work this out as follows: class XLConst end WIN32OLE.const_load(excel, XLConst) rFoundCell = wsheet.Range("A1:IV1").Find('OrgId', 'LookAt'=>XLConst::XlWhole) Hope this helps, Cheers! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.