Advanced Filter contains part of a word

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Sierras

I'm trying to get an advanced filter to work so that it will bring back
all records with part of the word rather than just the start of a word.
This works very well when I use AutoFilter with the "Contains" criteria.
But when I do an advanced filter, only records that start with the word
get filtered. What do I have to do to get all the records. Thanks...
 
Try something like this:

If Col_A, beginning at A1, contains the text values, has a heading of
MyText, and you want to find records where Col_A contains the word "turtle":

The criteria range could be:

C1: MyText
C2: *turtle*

Does that help?

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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP-Pro
 
I have something like this:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Target.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub
If Target.Address = "$A$2" Or _
Target.Address = "$B$2" Then
Range("Database").AdvancedFilter _
Action:=xlFilterInPlace, _
Unique:=False
End If
End Sub

This is code when you right click the tab. I tried putting "*" in various
places in this code but can't get it to work. The only way is to put a
"*" before any word I'd like to search for. This works, but I'd like to
be able have it do it automatically so that I just have to type the word
I'm looking for without any "*"'s.

Thanks..
 
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