Try this with "Formula Is":

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("JSO",A3))

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HTH,

RD
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"Jack Sons" wrote in message
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Hi all,

How to do the conditional formatting if I want in A3:P200 the back ground
color of a cell to be yellow if it contains JSO. Example, cells may look
like ABC/DEF/JSO/HIJ in which case I want the back ground yellow.
I tried a lot, but =$A$3="*JSO*" or =$A$3="*"$"JSO"&"*" etc. won't work.
I use Excel 2k.

TIA

Jack Sons
The Netherlands