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Default Conditional Formatting help required

I am trying to format the background color of a cell based on text in that
cell.

If the cell contains "EXCELLENT", I want to color the background green
(works great).

If the cell contains "PARTIAL", "GOOD", or "MEDIUM", I want to color it
yellow. I've tried putting the following in a Cell, but it just returns a
#Value error.

=OR(SEARCH("MEDIUM", D4) 0, SEARCH("PARTIAL",D4)0,Search("GOOD", D4)0)

When I only put one of these critiera in the OR function, it returns the
proper logical value. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Actually, I tested =SEARCH("GOOD", D4) and =Search("PARTIAL", D4)
individually as the cell forumla and they each returned a #Value! result.

Any ideas how to make this work?

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