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If cell contains in Excel

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This tutorial shows how to calculate If cell contains in Excel using the example below;

If you want to copy cells that contain certain text, you can use a formula that uses the IF function together with the SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions.

Formula

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("abc",A1)),A1,"")

Explanation

Once you find a value you’re looking for you can copy it to another location, or display a message, or perform some other calculation.

Too complicated? Just need a formula for If cell equals?

If cell contains “abc”, copy it elsewhere

In the example shown, we have a list of email addresses, and we want to copy those that contain “abc”. In  C5, the formula were using is this:

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("abc",B5)),B5,"")

In this formula, the logical test is this bit:

ISNUMBER(SEARCH("abc",B5))

This will return TRUE if the the value in B5 contains “abc” and false if not. See the cell contains specific text formula for a full explanation.

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To copy cell B5 if TRUE, we just need to supply B5 again for the “value if true” argument. If false, we supply an empty string (“”) which will display as a blank cell on the worksheet.

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