Assuming that you are saying that the coverage date cell has other things in
it beside the target words then try:

=IF(ISNUMBER(LOOKUP(10,1/SEARCH({"present","days","months"},D2))),"Current" ,"")

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"MaryFran" wrote in message
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Here's what I need to do: One column (D2) in my spreadsheet has the
coverage
dates of periodicals . I need to come up with the formula that would
insert
"Current" into a new column if the coverage date cell has any of the
following words: present, days, or months. If the coverage date does not
have any of those three words, I want a blank cell. Any help would be
muchly
appreciated!