Urgent Help: Find if any of the two values is included in a range of cell

[faizzsheikh]

I want to know the formula to find if any of the two values is included in a range of cell.

Example, below is a group of names (similarly I have various other groups with different names):

Column A
1. Andy
2. Susan
3. Greg
4. George
5. Peter
6. Craig


If the above group (range A1:A6) includes SUSAN OR ANDY then it must return the value as 'TRUE'

[benishiryo]

hi faizzsheikh. try:
=SUM(COUNTIF(A1:A6,{"Susan","Andy"}))>0

or if you want it to be finding names that contains those 2,
=SUM(COUNTIF(A1:A6,{"*Susan*","*Andy*"}))>0

[Tony Valko]

Here's another way using cells to hold the criteria.

Data Range

	A	B	C	D
1	Andy	-----	Susan	TRUE
2	Susan		Andy
3	Greg
4	George
5	Peter
6	Craig

This formula entered in D1:

=SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIF(A1:A6,C1:C2))>0

[faizzsheikh]

@benishiryo - Thanks a lot for your help! So Glad! both your formulas worked

@benishiryo - Thanks a lot to you too, yours also worked well

Thanks guys... this forum is amazing.
I eagerly wish to contribute to this forum but I myself is a rookie with advance excel, formulas & VBA

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[faizzsheikh]

@arlu1201

Thanks a lot for the valuable instructions