Hi

Hope this is the right place to post this - this is a formula question as
opposed to VBA but here goes.

I have a column which contains a mixture of numbers, text values and in some
cases a combination between the two for example
0
1
2
3
95*
DNB

I need an if statement to proceed determined by the contents. However if I
do

=SEARCH("*",A1) (or indeed any cell) I'm getting a 1. =SEARCH("d",A1)
gives me correct results either an error or the index of the character. It
seems something peculiar to the "*" character.

I can probably work around it but am I doing something wrong here - it's
Excel 2003 on XP SP3.

Thanks