Hi,

Try this array formula (Ctrl+Shift+Enter)

=IF(OR(MID(A1,ROW($1:$100),3)="ABC",MID(A1,ROW($1: $100),3)="123"),"Contains","Not")

Please let me know how this works.

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Ashsih Mathur
Microsoft Excel MVP
www.ashishmathur.com

"Christopher Naveen" wrote in
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Hi,

I am trying search a particular character in a cell and i used "Search"
Function. Here is the formual I used but it is returning error.

=IF(OR(SEARCH("ABC",A1),SEARCH("123",A1)),"Contain s","Does not contain")

the requirement is to check 2 different characters in the cell. So I used
OR
function.

Result
A B
ABC 123 Contains
ABC #VALUE!
123 #VALUE!
EL #VALUE!


The second and third row should return the value as "contains" but it is
returning error. Can anyone help me to fix this.

Thanks in advance!

Christ