The function you wrote works when the condition is true but when the
condition is false it returns #VALUE! instead of Not Found
"swatsp0p" wrote:
Is this what you are looking for?:
A1="Friday Food Sales"
B1=IF(FIND("Food Sales",A1),"Found","Not Found")
Result in B1: "Found"
You don't indicate how you want to 'reference' the found string.
HTH
Bruce
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