but let me start from the beginning:

"I am hoping that the users can go into the form" . . . from where?
a spreadsheet? when that file  opens? From a user  form? it's not
an issue of being correct, it's an issue of what you are trying to
do from the point that the user makes that 'request . . . the first
part is where they are when they make that request.

what is the user looking at when they press that button? . . . a
spreadsheet, a user form? . . . opening the file from windows?

"and do a criteria search  (based on one column in the datadump
spreadsheet)"

okay . . . only one column? do you have any other criteria, or just
that one column?

and what kind of criteria would they be searching with? . . .
date? . . . time? . . . product? . .. ????

at this point in the conversation, if anyone else in the group  has
some experience with this kind of situation, please jump in . . .