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Default Search a range for instances of a text string, return neighboringcell values each ti

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:46:29 AM UTC-5, excelroofing wrote:
Please see attached worksheet. For each "nth" instance of a particular

text string appearing in a range (a column), I'd like to return the

value of the cell to it's left (in the same row).





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excelroofing


Pretty simple really
=IF(ISERR(FIND("e",B2)),"",A2)