On 1/15/2013 at 11:47:23 AM Claus Busch wrote:

Hi,

Am Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:42:21 +0000 (UTC) schrieb tb:

I have some part numbers in a string format in column A.
I want to know which ones include the sub-strings "VI", "EP", "PAR",
"BU".

Luckily, only one of these four values can be in each part number.
There are no instances where a part number has two, three, or all
four of the above sub-strings.

try:
=COUNT(SEARCH({"VI","EP","PAR","BU"},A2))


Regards
Claus Busch

Works great! Thanks.
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tb