Use the ISERROR and MATCH. The following will return "found" or
"not found" depending whether 'organic chemistry b' is found in
cells A1:A10.

=IF(ISERROR(MATCH("organic chemistry b",A1:A10,0)),"not
found","found")


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"Ryan Ferrell" <Ryan wrote in
message
...
I am creating an automatic college degree check worksheet. One
tab has a list
of courses in each quarter and another tab has a list of
required classes for
graduation. I would like to setup a formula that would find if
"Organic
Chemistry B" is present in the classes tab and return a value
that I could
use conditional formatting on.

I have tried using SEARCH and FIND, but I have not been
sucessful. I
understand the conditional formatting part of the problem, but
I do not
understand how to create a search function that will return
some sort of
number.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

- Ryan