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FindString(String, Target) is actually FindString(Target, String)

Hi, the FindString function has a screen tip saying "FindString(String, Target)" when you start typing it in, but it's actually the reverse order of inputs ("FindString(Target, String)"). 

 

It actually should be in the "String, Target" order, in my opinion, since that's the way the mind thinks of it (i.e. "find '-' within this location") and also because that's the way the FIND function works in Excel already.  That's just kind of a nice to have since I'm transitioning from Excel.  Anyway, currently the parameters need to be put in in the opposite order.  It took me a long time to figure out today what was going wrong.  😞

 

Please fix, if you could.  Thanks!  Kurt

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Aastha
7 - Meteor

Thanks! I have noticed the same.

DataAndDonuts
5 - Atom

More than three years later and it's still not fixed...

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