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    Conditional Formatting to change text in cell if other cell contains specific letter

    Good Morning All,

    I have a spreadsheet which contains information about documents. Column D contains the documents revision and column G contains the current document status.

    Document revisions are as follows
    A1, A2 etc = Internal Review
    B1, B2 etc = Client Review
    C1 C2 etc = Issued for Use.

    I was wondering if I could get Column G to automatically populate with "Internal Review" for example if I entered A(x) into column C - (x being the number of revisions at that status)

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to change text in cell if other cell contains specific letter

    try in column G1

    =IF( Left(C1,1)="A", "Internal Review", "what you want to put if not A")
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    Re: Conditional Formatting to change text in cell if other cell contains specific letter

    Thats Excellent, Cheers Etaf.
    I'm very unsure of the syntax and arguments when it comes to formulas. Can I extend this to include the B = Client Review and C = Issued for Use?

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    =IF( LEFT(D2,1)="A", "Internal Review", IF( LEFT(D2,1)="B", "Client Review", IF( LEFT(D2,1)="C", "Issued for Use", "Enter Status")))
    Managed to use nested if statements to achieve this.

    Thanks for all your help!

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to change text in cell if other cell contains specific letter

    =IF( Left(C1,1)="A", "Internal Review", IF(Left(C1,1)="B", "Client Review" , "Issued for Use"))

    the above assumes you only have A(x), B(x) or C(x) entered and not other characters will be used in the cell
    essentially if the cell 1st character is not an A or B it will put "Issued for Use"

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