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Handling errors in formulas (how annoying are they!)
I want to write a formula that returns a 1 if the given text is found
in another cell, or "" if it is not. This seemingly simple formula is driving me nutty because of excels wacky error codes. eg. [a1] =if(find("text",b1),1,"") [a2] =if(find("text",b2),1,"") [b1]="here is some text" [b2]="here is some words" This returns [a1] 1 [a2] #VALUE! how do I get it to work properly...? |
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The trouble is FIND returns an error value when the text is not found.
You turn this to your advantage and use =IF(ISERROR(FIND("text",A1)),"",1) best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "anon90210" wrote in message om... I want to write a formula that returns a 1 if the given text is found in another cell, or "" if it is not. This seemingly simple formula is driving me nutty because of excels wacky error codes. eg. [a1] =if(find("text",b1),1,"") [a2] =if(find("text",b2),1,"") [b1]="here is some text" [b2]="here is some words" This returns [a1] 1 [a2] #VALUE! how do I get it to work properly...? |
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