PS....

I wrote:
if EX or ENT can only appear in the left or right of the text, and they
will never appear in both left and right, then the following
might suffice:
C1: =if(or(left(A1,2)="ex", right(A1,2)="ex"), B1, "")
D1: =if(or(left(A1,3)="ent", right(A1,3)="ent"), B1, "")

If you always expect either EX or ENT -- that is, there is never a case
where neither is present -- D1 can be simplified, namely:

=if(C1="", B1, "")


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"JoeU2004" wrote in message
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Ostensibly, put the following into C1 and D1, then copy down:

C1: =if(isnumber(search("EX",A1)), B1, "")

D1: =if(isnumber(search("ENT",A1)),B1,"")

Caveats:

1. SEARCH is case-insensitive; for example, it will match "ex" as well as
"EX". If you prefer not to match lowercase, use FIND instead of SEARCH.

2. This will match "EX" or "ENT" contained anywhere, an apparent
requirement given your examples. But consider the following ambiguity in
A1: ENT EX51B1A1. The formulas above will yield the same value in both
C1 and D1.

There is no solution for #2 unless you qualify the syntactic requirements.
For example, if EX or ENT can only appear in the left or right of the
text, and they will never appear in both left and right, then the
following might suffice:

C1: =if(or(left(A1,2)="ex", right(A1,2)="ex"), B1, "")

D1: =if(or(left(A1,3)="ent", right(A1,3)="ent"), B1, "")

Again, those formulas are case-insensitive.


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"Jeremy" wrote in message
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I am looking for a formula to place what is in B in either C or D based
off
of if A has an EX or ENT in it. EX goes in C where ENT goes in D. Below
the
first example is what I have and the second is what I would like.

Thank you



A B C D
1 CGVEHEX 1500
2 ENTB2A0 2500
3 EX NM51B1A1 2600
4 ENT W NM 2780

Example 2
A B C D
1 CGVEHEX 1500 1500
2 ENTB2A0 2500 2500
3 EX NM51B1A1 2600 2600
4 ENT W NM 2780 2780