I have this worksheet in which a collumn contains a lot of text but i
want to filter out the cells that contain the text "SAP (miscellaneous
text)" from the rest. Is there any way excel can recognize the
SAP+space part and doesn't care about what follows after that in the
cell as long as there at least is some text?
Thx in advance.


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=IF(LEFT(A1,4)="SAP ",DO SOMETHING IF FOUND,DO SOMETHING ELSE IF NOT
FOUND)

Will this work for you?

Bruce


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thx. worked like a charm. only ; instead of ,


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MeisterHim Wrote:
thx. worked like a charm. only ; instead of ,
Oh, sorry, must be a regional setting for your country. In the U.S.
the comma is used as a separator in formulas.

Glad you got it to work. Thanks for the feedback, it is always
appreciated.

Cheers!

Bruce


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