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    Finding certain words and phrases in a cell

    Hi All,

    If I have a cell with a sentence in it that may contain certain words or groups of words, is it possible to write a formula that looks for certain words and returns TRUE?

    Thanks
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    Re: Finding certain words and phrases in a cell

    Thank you for this. I'm struggling to make it work.

    I'm putting -

    =IF(ISERROR({KM},{S11})),"","TRUE")

    Should I be using {} ?

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    Re: Finding certain words and phrases in a cell

    No I used them because it was a phrase or a title for you to understand

    it should read
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    No I used them because it was a phrase or a title for you to understand

    it should read
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    Re: Finding certain words and phrases in a cell

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