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Default Creating a UDF to search a cell's formula

I'm trying to find a way to search for text in a cell's formula.

Is this something that could be done with a UDF ?

For example ...

SearchFormula(find_text,within_text) where find_text could be a
single value or a multi-valued named range.

If A1 contained =VLOOKUP(One,$A:$B,2,FALSE)

and C1=One, C2=Two, C3=Three

and $C$1:$C$3 was a named range called "Numbers"

The formula would look like =SEARCHFORMULA(Numbers,A1) and would
return a Boolean value of 1.

If a match wasn't found, it would return a Boolean value of 0.

Any ideas ?




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