Thank you so much. Is there a way I can change the cell color for the
different results?

"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

Use COUNTIF()

If holiday is a cell value
=IF(COUNTIF(A1:A100,"Holiday"),"Taken","Need to take")

If holiday is within the cell
=IF(COUNTIF(A1:A100,"*Holiday*"),"Taken","Need to take")


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Jacob Skaria


"Frustrated" wrote:

I'm trying to figure a way to determine if a word appears in a range of cells
to return a certain value. For instance. If the word "Holiday" appears in
blocks A1 through A200, then in cell B2 it would return a value of "taken" if
it doesn't appear in that range then return a value of "Need to take" how
can this be done. I have been able to use the IF function to return the
desired outcome for only one of the cells, but when I attemp to use a range
of cells it will not work. Please help.