AboutRichard Roberts Expertise Can assist you in most areas of Excel, have been working with it for about 15 years in many types of applications, but primarily in financial and accounting applications. I am a CPA and many client or client problems have necessitated the use of excel. I am not an expert in charting, macros, or pivot tables.
Experience Have been working with Excel for about 15 years primarily in accounting and financial areas.
Question I need an IF Statement for certain numbers in a cell. Example: Cell B2 has MJ244F001057 in it. I need a statement that says If B2 contains 1057 then E2 else E2-7.
Answer Debbie
You can use the search feature to identify whether the cell contains 1057. the search will tell you what position the number starts, so if it tell you a position of 9, then you know it is there and starts at the 9th position in the text string. If 1057 is not there then it returns the error message #VALUE!
The search formula looks like +SEARCH(1057,B5)
this says look in cell B5 and tell me the position that 1057 start in.
You can combine this formula with the IF formula to produce the result you want. For example.
=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH(1057,B5)>0),E2-7,E2)
This formula says if the result of the search is an ERROR meaning the 1057 is not located within the cell B5, the use +E2-7. If the search formula results in a number greater than 0, then use E2.
Of course your formula doesn't have to refer specifically to 1057, it can refer to a cell that contains your criteria, so you could write the formula
=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH(F2,B5)>0),E2-7,E2)
Where F2 contains 1057
If you set the formula up this way, you can change the criteria easily by merely changing the data in F2.
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