It appears that you should be looking for the string "GCVW-00001" and
Excel is probably giving you the #NAME? error because it doesn't know
anything with the name GCVW-0001.

On Dec 31, 10:51*am, stumped
wrote:
I'm trying to create an IF statement. whe

=IF(B3=GCVW-00001,"D3=X,"D3=O")

I keep getting an error with my formula - now when i take out the GCVW
portion and just leave the 1, the formula works fine and does what it should.
But the cells i'm looking at contain more than just a single digit.

Help, please. I need it to search the cell and return an X if it find a
certain value, all the values i'm looking for contain GCVW-0000*

thanks