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Stu - Aug 11, 2016 at 04:50 AM
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 - Aug 12, 2016 at 10:26 AM
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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Aug 11, 2016 at 07:10 AM
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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Stu
Aug 12, 2016 at 05:02 AM
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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Aug 12, 2016 at 10:26 AM
Stuart, Good morning.

Thanks for the feedback.

Have a nice weekend.
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