Issue with wilcards in formula

[easybpw]

Hello and thanks in advance for the help.

I'm using Microsoft Office Professional 2013 and am having issues with wildcards in the formula below. Maybe I am not understanding things clearly.
I am trying to say that if F310 contains "Staff Charge" to put "1614" in the cell with the formula. And if it doesn't contain "Staff Charge" to do the lookup. The lookup works great without the IF statement I added. But I need the lookup to work only if F310 doesn't contain "Staff Charge". Yes, there is text before and after "Staff Charge" and this text is not constant. What am I missing? Are wildcards not possible with the formula I'm using? If not what is an alternative?


=IF(F310="*Staff Charge*","1614",LOOKUP(3,1/('JE Mapping'!$A$2:$A$150=Detail!$C310)/('JE Mapping'!$B$2:$B$150=Detail!$E310)/('JE Mapping'!$C$2:$C$150=Detail!$F310),('JE Mapping'!$D$2:$D$150)))

 

[Fluff]

You cannot use wildcards like that, try

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Staff Charge",F310)),"1614",...

 

[Eric W]

This also works with wildcards:

=IF(COUNTIF(F310,"*Staff Charge*"),"1614", . . .