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If a cell contains a specific text than return a value Everywhere I search I see this formula for looking in a column and if a row contains a specific value then to return x, if not return y. =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(text, A1)),X,Y) But when I use this in Excel 2010 I get an error. I modify it to look like this...
However, if you want more flexibility, you can use your own formula, as explained in this article. If you want to highlight cells that contain certain text, you can use a simple formula that returns TRUE when a cell contains the text (substring) that you specify. For example, if you want to highlight any cells in the range B2:B11 that contain the text dog, you can use: =ISNUMBER(SEARCH(dog,B2)) Note: with conditional formatting, it's important that the formula be entered relative to the active cell in the selection, which is assumed to be B2 in this case.