If statement help

[Stephen R]

I am trying to distinguish between PO numbers, one system uses PO (the letter) and the other system uses P0 (the number). I want to add a column that identifies which system created the PO number based on if/starts with formula

[AlKey]

Maybe using something like this will help

=A1=B1

this will return TRUE or FALSE

	A	B	C
1	PO	P0	FALSE
2	PO	PO	TRUE
3	PO	PO	TRUE
4	PO	PO	TRUE
5	PO	P0	FALSE
6	PO	P0	FALSE

[Pete_UK]

You can have:

=IF(LEFT(A2,2)="PO","system 1","system 2")

Hope this helps.

Pete

[Stephen R]

That worked, thanks Pete!

[Pete_UK]

You're welcome, Stephen.

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