Thanks, this almost works, but I should have been more clear in my question.
The cell being tested will not contain exactly "abc", "def", etc, but more
along the line of "abc-123", "def-432", and so on. Is there any way to use
the list but require a match on the entire list value in question?

Thanks again.
Tom

"smartin" wrote:

tommcbrny wrote:
Hello,

I need to capture text from cell D2 (example only) if cell D1 contains
"abc", otherwise use the text from D1. I am able to do this with the
following formula:
(IF(ISERR(FIND("abc",D1,1)),D1,D2)

I would like to expand this now so that if D1 contains either "abc", "def",
"ghi", "jkl", or ""mno", I capture the text in D2, else use the text from D1.
Is this possible? I have fiddled with the original by strining the
additional requirements on and can get Excel to accept the formula as
"correct" but not accomplish what I need to do.

Thank you,

Hi Tom

Put the list of "positive" values (abc, def, etc.) in some
out-of-the-way place and name this range "MyStuff".

Then use

=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(D1,MyStuff,1,false)),D2,D1)