Macro if contains word in column A, put symbol in column E

**milena1111** · 10-15-2012, 07:49 AM

Hi, I am new here and I need urgent help.

I have excel sheet with million rows, and I need macro which will, if cells in column A contains specific word or part of a word, for example just "Nick", then put letter "S" in column E in that same row.

Many thanks for helping me.

**Bishonen** · 10-15-2012, 07:54 AM

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**milena1111** · 10-15-2012, 08:17 AM

thank you Bishonen for quick replay, but this does not function for me,

because in column A, "Nick" is only a part of sentence, I have for example in Cell A1 "Nick Cave 1236 New York", and I want macro which will find specific word "Nick Cave" and in the same row in column J put symbol "S".

**arlu1201** · 10-15-2012, 08:43 AM

In Bishonen's code, change

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**milena1111** · 10-15-2012, 08:51 AM

Thank you for reply, it works

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