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One of the best ways to search your data to see if a cell contains a certain value is to use the REGEXMATCH function. This function will search a cell and return TRUE if a piece of text matches your regular expression, or FALSE if it does not. The formula evaluates to either TRUE or FALSE.

In the Type field, edit the number format codes to create the format that you want. To display both text and numbers in a cell, enclose the text characters in double quotation marks (" "), or precede the numbers with a backslash (\\). NOTE: Editing a built-in format does not remove the format.

Cell contains specific textGeneric formula. =ISNUMBER(SEARCH(substring,text))To check if a cell contains specific text, you can use the SEARCH function together with the ISNUMBER function.The SEARCH function returns the position of the search string when found, and the #VALUE!How to use formula criteria (50 examples)

Cell contains specific textGeneric formula. =ISNUMBER(SEARCH(substring,text))To check if a cell contains specific text, you can use the SEARCH function together with the ISNUMBER function.The SEARCH function returns the position of the search string when found, and the #VALUE!How to use formula criteria (50 examples)

We often hear that you want to make data easier to understand by including text in your formulas, such as "2,347 units sold." To include text in your functions and formulas, surround the text with double quotes ("").

Find cells that contain textSelect the range of cells that you want to search.On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Find & Select, and then click Find.In the Find what box, enter the textor numbersthat you need to find.More items...

Excel SEARCH function=SEARCH("e", "Excel") returns 1 because "e" is the first character in the word "Excel", ignoring the case. Like FIND, Excel's SEARCH function returns the #VALUE!