Need Help With A Find Formula
 

Hope this is the right forum :)

I have a spreadsheet with a long list of names that I have to go through and pick the employees that are mine. What I'm trying to do is simplify this by creating a find formula(or multiple) that will automatically populate the column where I indicate they are mine.

An example. I have Column A that is where I put my name to indicate the employee belongs to me. I need to populate this with toy4x4 if they are my employee.

Column B contains the employee first and last names and there is no rhyme or reason to the format of their name in this column.

I can do a =find("Smith",b1) and it returns a 7 which is the starting point in the string for that last name.

Problem is I have 17 employees. So I need to find "Smith", "Jones", "Brown", "White", etc


I have to do this monthly and in about 15 spreasheets so I'm looking for an easy cut and paste method.

Thanks in advance!!

Ok, this works to start off:

=IF(FIND("Smith",B1),"Mine","Not Mine")

Problem is when Smith is not in the name I get #VALUE instead of "Not Mine".

Then how to do nester ORs for Smith, Jones, etc.

Cause this doesn't work:

=IF(OR(FIND("Smith",B1),FIND("Jones",B1)),"Mine"," Not Mine")

I just get #VALUE

try changing the order and testing for an error. I threw in the Proper
function to make sure the case is the same, otherwise I believe you will get
an error.

=IF(AND(ISERROR(FIND("Smith",PROPER(B1))),ISERROR( FIND("Jones",PROPER(B1)))),"Not Mine","Mine")

"toy4x4" wrote:


Ok, this works to start off:

=IF(FIND("Smith",B1),"Mine","Not Mine")

Problem is when Smith is not in the name I get #VALUE instead of "Not
Mine".

Then how to do nester ORs for Smith, Jones, etc.

Cause this doesn't work:

=IF(OR(FIND("Smith",B1),FIND("Jones",B1)),"Mine"," Not Mine")

I just get #VALUE


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toy4x4

Try...

=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(FIND({"Smith","Jones"},B1))),"Mine ","Not Mine")

OR

=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(FIND(A1:A2,B1))),"Mine","Not Mine")

OR

=IF(B1<"",IF(OR(ISNUMBER(FIND(A1:A2,B1))),"Mine", "Not Mine"),"")

....where A1:A2 contains your list of names. The last two formulas need
to be confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER, not just ENTER. Also, the
last formula contains an additional IF statement to return a blank when
B1 is empty.

Hope this helps!

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toy4x4 wrote:

Ok, this works to start off:

=IF(FIND("Smith",B1),"Mine","Not Mine")

Problem is when Smith is not in the name I get #VALUE instead of "Not
Mine".

Then how to do nester ORs for Smith, Jones, etc.

Cause this doesn't work:

=IF(OR(FIND("Smith",B1),FIND("Jones",B1)),"Mine"," Not Mine")

I just get #VALUE