=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"abc",123},A1))),"contain s","does not contain")

A few keystrokes shorter:

=IF(COUNT(SEARCH({"abc",123},A1)),"contains","does not contain")

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"T. Valko" wrote in message
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Try this:

=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"abc",123},A1))),"contains ","does not contain")

Copy down as needed

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Christopher Naveen" wrote
in message ...
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