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Default IF command

=COUNTIF(A1,"*complication*")


"JRD" wrote:

I want to use the IF command as follows:

=IF(A1="*complication*", 1,0)

so that if A1 contains "No complication" it would return the answer 1

However it is not working

Does anyone know why?

Thanks

JD