Use this under formula is

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("text_you_want_to_check",A1))

or

=COUNTIF(A1:A1,"*text_you_want_to_check*")0

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Peo Sjoblom

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"massimo" wrote in message
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I am using this example:
http://www.contextures.com/xlCondFormat03.html#List

the only difference is my "Codes" contain some text PLUS one of the
values... is there a way to modify this so that it checks all the text
within
the cell...

this formatting works like a charm if only the value of the list is in the
cell being check, but i need it to truncate the data and just check to see
if
the value exisits ANYWHERE in the cell...

any ideas?