Formula if cell contains certain letter?

b34r

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Is there a formula in 2003 I could use that let's me perform a different equation if a cell contains a certain letter? eg:

"3400A"
"3400B"

Is there a way to use the IF function to say "If cell contains letter "B", multiply it by "reference cell", if not, just leave it. ?
 

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You won't be able to multiply cells containing text but you could use something like

=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("B",A1)),1,0)

which will return 1 if A1 contains B or 0 otherwise.
 
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oh, no, didnt mean to state i wanted to multiply the text cell...wanted to multiply a number cell by another number cell in the same row, which seemed to work - thanks!
 
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follow up question:

could i do the same thing, but say if the cell contains a "b" or a "c" then do something, if not, leave it?
 
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You won't be able to multiply cells containing text but you could use something like

=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("B",A1)),1,0)

which will return 1 if A1 contains B or 0 otherwise.

whats the difference between

=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("B",A1)),1,0) and
=IF(ISNUMBER(Search("B",A1)),1,0)
 
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just checked and noticed Finds its case sensitive, is that the only difference
 
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I'm no expert, but I think if you nest the Find function you could achieve that.

=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("B",A1)),1,IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("C",A1)),2,0))

With a quick test it produced these results:

[TR] [TD]Input[/TD] [TD]Output[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]310A[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [/TR]
[TD]310B[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [/TR]
[TD]310C[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [/TR]


Hope this helps,

Phil
 
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