You can use the FIND function and test for a (non-) error result (ISERROR)

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"Pawaso" wrote in message
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I'm trying to use an "IF" function to look for a certain word in a string
of
text. Is there a "contains" operator for this?

I tried using =if(A1="*example*","yes","no") but this does not seem to
work.