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Mazzaropi
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HI,
The value for false refuses to come up as a blank cell in my formula to find and copy a cell if it contains certain initials, or leave it blank if not. It always comes up as an error in the value for the search function. Can anyone spot why and help me correct this?
Kind regards,
Stu

=IF(SEARCH("BP",Sheet1!B4),Sheet1!B3,"")
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stu, Good morning.

If search_text does not appear in within_text, SEARCH returns the #VALUE! error value.

Try to use it:
=IF(IFERROR(SEARCH("BP",Sheet1!B4),FALSE),Sheet1!B3,"")

Is this what you want?
I hope it helps.
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Mazzaropi,

Thank you, that has worked perfectly, and in the process I think i can use that to resolve a couple of other formula i had been thiking about but not tried out yet.

Thanks again,

kind regards
Stuart
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Stuart, Good morning.

Thanks for the feedback.

Have a nice weekend.
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