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Gary's formula in CF will do that.
If you want also to deal with "tbn" in lower case, change his CF formula to
=LEN(SUBSTITUTE(UPPER(A1),"TBN",""))<LEN(A1)
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"JPS" wrote in message
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If TBN is found anywhere within the text of a cell, I need the color of
the
font for all of the text in that cell to be green.


"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Say for cell A1, use Formula Is:

=LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"TBN",""))<LEN(A1)


"JPS" wrote:

How do I change the color of a cell to green if the cell contains the
phrase
"TBN" anywhere within the text