Using a grouping of cells to check one cell against another...
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There is a group of 56 cells that contain 3 letter groups (i.e. DCM, DCP, DCE, NTP). There is a column of cells that are listed in the following format (DCELNN010101). I want to find a way to use an IF statement to say: IF ("DCELNN010101" contains "Any of the 56 3 letter groups" then return TRUE, FALSE) I've been using =IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("DCE",L!B99)),"TRUE", "FALSE") with mild success. The problem is that I'm limited to using just one of the 3 letter groups (DCE) at a time. So with that logic I would have to create 56 formulas for each cell that I wanted to perform this on. No thanks. I want the formula to check the entire group of 56 groups and return whether that cell contains any one of the 3 letters. Thanks! |
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i'm assuming that your 56 3 letter codes are listed somewhere (sheet2!A1:A56) and i'm hoping that these three letters are to be found at the START of your other cells (as in your example), if so you can use the following formula =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(LEFT(D3,3),Sheet2!A1:A56,1,0)),FA LSE,TRUE) Cheers JulieD "deucer" wrote in message ... Hello, There is a group of 56 cells that contain 3 letter groups (i.e. DCM, DCP, DCE, NTP). There is a column of cells that are listed in the following format (DCELNN010101). I want to find a way to use an IF statement to say: IF ("DCELNN010101" contains "Any of the 56 3 letter groups" then return TRUE, FALSE) I've been using =IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("DCE",L!B99)),"TRUE", "FALSE") with mild success. The problem is that I'm limited to using just one of the 3 letter groups (DCE) at a time. So with that logic I would have to create 56 formulas for each cell that I wanted to perform this on. No thanks. I want the formula to check the entire group of 56 groups and return whether that cell contains any one of the 3 letters. Thanks! |
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