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. ?
 
Sorry, my table didn't perform properly in the post above. Here are the results:


InputOutput
310A
310B
310C
0
1
2

<tbody>
</tbody>

Phil
 
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Excel Facts

VLOOKUP to Left?
Use =VLOOKUP(A2,CHOOSE({1,2},$Z$1:$Z$99,$Y$1:$Y$99),2,False) to lookup Y values to left of Z values.
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:

InputOutput
310A0

<tbody>
</tbody>


Hope this helps,

Phil

Hi Phil,

I used your formula and it worked great. Do you know how you would set it up if you wanted to include lower case letters as well?

Thanks

Mel
 
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