Try

=IF(COUNTIF(A1:A100,"<"&E5),"yes","no")

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HTH

Bob

"xl@lf" wrote in message
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Thanks Bob, that’s thinking outside the box. Now I’d like to swap out
the 7 with a cell reference. Such that
=IF(COUNTIF(A1:A100,"<E5"),"yes","no") but that's not working.

Example: if(or(E5A1, E5A2, E5A3, …, E5A100), “yes”, “no”)