Ooops!

Disregard this:

...but the OR version is 1 character shorter! <g

I guess that means it's time for some nourishment! I must consume mass
quantities!


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"T. Valko" wrote in message
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Yeah, that'll work...

...but the OR version is 1 character shorter! <g

Speaking of shorter...

The pedantic approach is to use ISNUMBER:

ISNUMBER(MATCH(...))
ISNUMBER(SEARCH(...))
ISNUMBER(FIND(...))

Lately, I've been moving away from ISNUMBER to COUNT (where applicable)


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote in
message ...
Of course, as David pointed out, my faulty formula was attempting to
answer the wrong question; but, had the question actually been to match
the outer two characters, I think this formula would have worked
correctly...

=REPLACE(A1,2,LEN(A1)-2,"")="hh"

Assuming that a case insensitive match was desired.

Rick


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote
in message ...
True enough... and I'll use the same excuse I gave to David in his
sub-thread for missing that fact.<g

Rick


"T. Valko" wrote in message
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For your first conditional formula...
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("h*h",A1))

That will find false positives like:

thigh
thorough
haha
happy birthday


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote
in message ...
What about this? For your first conditional formula...

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("h*h",A1))

and for your second conditional formula...

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("h*x",A1))

Note, both of these are case insensitive.

Rick


"Nastech" wrote in message
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in Conditional Format, trying to shorten many examples of:

=OR(LEFT(CM9,1)="h",RIGHT(CM9,1)="h")

to something like:

=OR(FIND(CM9,"H"),FIND(CM9,"X"))
but cannot get multiple items to be valid in a conditional format.
is there
another way or something doing wrong? thanks.