I think you're already on to the issue, comparing text strings to numeric
values. You said the '3' is a text field; is that because you formatted as
text (which would n't help as far as matching) or becuase you entered it as
'3 (with a leading apostrophe, which forces it to be treated as text)? To be
safe, you can probably change the IF to read if(a1=trim(b1),c1,false). The
trim function will force a numeric value to be converted to a string.
Hope this helps. --Bruce

"haitch2" wrote:


Hi

Im using the if function, If example A1=B1 insert C1.

A1 (text field) has this formula in it =IF((I38=3),MID(H38,1,1)," ")
B1 (text field) =3
C1 (text field) = 0011

But every time i put the forumal =IF(A1=B1,C1,FALSE) it come up as
false even though they have the same value (all the field are text not
number as it will have letters in as well)

If i cange the 3 to an A the formual works fine.

this isnt the actual formual i want as im going to use a lookup table
but im just narrowing the problem down.

I hope this makes sense any help would be great. :)


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