Works great, thanks very much. I copy and pasted it from the site and it was
returning a false value so I cleared the contents and manually entered it and
eureka!!

"T. Valko" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(COUNTIF(Status,"improved"),10,"")

Replace 10 with whatever your number is.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"evilthorne" wrote in message
...
I am trying to have a number show up in cell o16 if the text "improved"
comes
up in any of the cells between I54:I102 I have also named the I54:I102
"Status" in case this helps at all.

Thanks

"T. Valko" wrote:

It's not real clear what you're trying to do.

Do you want to return a number from a cell that corresponds to some cell
in
the range I54:I102 that contains improved?

Or, do you just wan't to know if improved is in the range I54:I102, and
if
so then return "x".?

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"evilthorne" wrote in message
...
I am trying to get excel to look up in a range of cells I54:I102 to
search
for a specific text "improved" and if true put a numerical value in
another
cell. I can get it to work if I put it in the first cell but if I put
it
in
any other cell it returns with an error. What is the best formula to
use
in
this instance?

Thanks very much.