Yes, you can use a wildcard character in an "IF" statement in Excel. The wildcard character you can use is the *, which represents any number of characters.

To use the wildcard character in an "IF" statement, you can use the COUNTIF function. Here's an example:

1. Code:

   =IF(COUNTIF(A:A,"1B*")0,"Certain Answer","")

In this example, "A:A" is the column where you want to search for the data containing "1B*". The asterisk (*) after "1B" represents any number of characters that may follow "1B".

The COUNTIF function counts the number of cells in the range that meet the specified criteria. If the count is greater than 0, the "IF" statement returns "Certain Answer". If the count is 0, the "IF" statement returns an empty string ("").