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For example if a set of cells read BEG70
DEG60
BEG80
and I want to write an if statement that will pull all the cells where the
text starts with BEG ( I want to pull BEG70 and BEG80) how do I do that?






















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Hi,
Why you don't use filter and select the information as per below

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For example if a set of cells read BEG70
DEG60
BEG80
and I want to write an if statement that will pull all the cells where the
text starts with BEG ( I want to pull BEG70 and BEG80) how do I do that?






















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Pull and do what??
An array answer is
=IF(LEFT(A2:A5,3)="BEG",A2:A5,)
Entered using Ctrl+Shift+Enter


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"Doug" wrote:

For example if a set of cells read BEG70
DEG60
BEG80
and I want to write an if statement that will pull all the cells where the
text starts with BEG ( I want to pull BEG70 and BEG80) how do I do that?






















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