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    This document provides a tutorial on how to check if a cell in Excel contains specific text using various functions. It explains that the SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions can be used to find the position of a substring and check if the result is a number. An IF function can then return "Found" if the cell contains the text or "Not Found" if it does not. The COUNTIF function can also be used with IF to check for specific text, but it is always case-insensitive.

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    This document provides a tutorial on how to check if a cell in Excel contains specific text using various functions. It explains that the SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions can be used to find the position of a substring and check if the result is a number. An IF function can then return "Found" if the cell contains the text or "Not Found" if it does not. The COUNTIF function can also be used with IF to check for specific text, but it is always case-insensitive.

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    This document provides a tutorial on how to check if a cell in Excel contains specific text using various functions. It explains that the SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions can be used to find the position of a substring and check if the result is a number. An IF function can then return "Found" if the cell contains the text or "Not Found" if it does not. The COUNTIF function can also be used with IF to check for specific text, but it is always case-insensitive.

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    To check if a cell contains specific text, use ISNUMBER and
    Chapter
    SEARCH in Excel. There's no CONTAINS function in Excel.
    Logical Functions
    1. To find the position of a substring in a text string, use the
    SEARCH function.
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    If easy

    Comparison

    Operators

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    Ifs
    Explanation: "duck" found at position 10, "donkey" found at
    position 1, cell A4 does not contain the word "horse" and Contains Specific Text
    "goat" found at position 12.
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    2. Add the ISNUMBER function. The ISNUMBER function returns
    If Cell is Blank
    TRUE if a cell contains a number, and FALSE if not.
    Absolute Value

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    Cell References
    Explanation: cell A2 contains the word "duck", cell A3 contains
    the word "donkey", cell A4 does not contain the word "horse"
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    and cell A5 contains the word "goat".
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    3. You can also check if a cell contains specific text, without


    Become an
    displaying the substring. Make sure to enclose the substring in
    double quotation marks. Excel Pro
    300 Examples

    4. To perform a case-sensitive search, replace the SEARCH


    function with the FIND function.

    Explanation: the formula in cell C3 returns FALSE now. Cell A3


    does not contain the word "donkey" but contains the word
    "Donkey".

    5. Add the IF function. The formula below (case-insensitive)


    returns "Found" if a cell contains specific text, and "Not Found"
    if not.

    6. You can also use IF and COUNTIF in Excel to check if a cell


    contains specific text. However, the COUNTIF function is always
    case-insensitive.

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    Explanation: the formula in cell C2 reduces to


    =IF(COUNTIF(A2,"*duck*"),"Found","Not Found"). An asterisk (*)
    matches a series of zero or more characters. Visit our page
    about the COUNTIF function to learn all you need to know
    about this powerful function.

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