Hi

Try
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("jso",A1))
That will deal with both upper and lower and mixed case versions of JSO.
If you want to be find JSO only, then change to FIND in place of SEARCH.

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Regards

Roger Govier


"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