Try this...

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(";"&D$1&";",";"&$C2&";")),"Yes ","")

Copied across then down as needed.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Roger" wrote in message
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Oops, sorry about the typo. Yes the 3'rd Yes is related to 72203 and hence
the intention on my part was that the link in column C shoud be 872203 and
not 87203 as you correctly pointed out ;o/
BTW, I did not copy this from a spreadsheet but entered it in manually and
the alignment looked fine when I posted it.
I've corrected the typo and re-aligned the columns again so hopefully it
doesn't look as messy.

Anyway, the question remains: How can I remove the two last Yes'es ?

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The Oilman


"T. Valko" wrote:

I can see how the 2nd Yes is matching 71203 in 871203 but I can't see
where
the 3rd Yes is matching anything.

BTW, when you paste multiple columns of data into a post the alignment
usually gets hosed and it ends up as scrambled mess.

Is the 3rd Yes related to 72203? What's it supposed to be matching?

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Roger" wrote in message
...
Hi.
I have a large spreadsheet where I have listed System number vertically
and
horisontally in a Matrix.
What I want to do is to identify / mark which record in the vertical
listing
of these system numbers that are listed in column C (Links)
Starting in Column D1 I have used the following function and copied it
across the matrix : =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(D$1,$C2)),"Yes","")

The spreadsheet looks like this:
A B C D
E F
"System" "Description" "Links" 45761 71203
72203
71203 Text1 22377;45761 Yes
48958 Text2 871203
Yes
65321 Text3 92458;872203
Yes
etc
etc

The first "Yes" is OK because the links columns actually has the
numbers
"45761" in the links column.
However the next 2 "Yes" are erroneous because the function return a
true
value due to the fact that the links listed for these records contain
these
last 5 digits as part of the links numbers listed there and so they
return
a
"Yes" in these columns.

I want to eliminate the last two "Yes" through a revised function but I
can't seem to find one that that will do this for me.
I have tried including Exact and various others in the above function
formula but that doesn't work either.
Anyone got a solution for this ??
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The Oilman


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