Find word within cell & put value in adjacent [Solved/Closed]

Suppose your data is from A1 to A100 or onward ..... then in B1 copy this formula and drag it down ....

=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("*apple*",A1,1)),"","A ")

Hello I am just working in Excel with the same problem. I have 40K of rows in column A and would like to look up a word(s) and have a value "Yes" or "No" or even true or false. Does any one know how to save me time doing this?

It would be greatly appreciated

=IF(ISBLANK(RC[-1]),"", IF(OR( ISNUMBER(SEARCH("apple",RC[-1],1)), ISNUMBER(SEARCH("banana",RC[-1],1)), ISNUMBER(SEARCH("carrot",RC[-1],1)), ISNUMBER(SEARCH("donut",RC[-1],1)) ), "Yes","No"))

Two comments regarding the previous formula I provided: if the cell to the left is completely blank, then the result cell is also blank. If you don't like that (and ONLY want yes/no, just remove the 1st part of the formula that checks for ISBLANK.

#1. I did notice that most of the previous formulas preferred to check for ISERROR, but this is not the best solution, especially in a case asuch as this since ISERROR finds the case where it fails, whereas ISNUMBER finds the case where is succeeds, which is usually the case we're often looking for.

#2. I used the preferred cell reference of RC vs. A1 format. Using A1 format means you can never Copy/Paste the formula into the formula bar of another cell, but instead you are forced to drag down/over to copy it and have the relative cell references fixed by Excel. (Why they switched from RC format to A1, I could never fathom. It's so much harder to use and to read IMHO.) If you want the formula in A1 format, merely change the RC[-1] references (which references the cell to the left regardless of it's location in the sheet) to the cell reference to the desired location.

For those who want to switch to RC format (or at least see what RC format is), check / change your preferences to R1C1 (I believe the General tab).

I wish you could understand this..
I' d like to put in B2:B22 the name of the person that correspong to the color find in the phrases at
A2:A22. NOTE. C2:D11 is the lookup chart. Ex: BLUE = CRIS and WHITE = MARL. So B2=CHRIS & B3=MARL.
and what i want is an excel formula that will do that...ex. =if(search(keyword,A1),vlookup(.....),"error") or any formula that will make that possible..except using macro..many thanks.........


A B C D
1 PHRASES ASSIGNED TO KEYWORD ASSIGNED TO
2 THE OCEAN IS BLUE BLACK ARNOLD
3 I LIKE HIS WHITE SHIRT BLUE CHRIS
4 BLUE IS MY FAVE COLOR BROWN FERNANDO
5 THE OCEAN IS RED LAVENDER GENER
6 I LIKE HIS RED SHIRT MAGENTA JEFF
7 RED IS MY FAVE COLOR ORANGE JOHN
8 THE OCEAN IS YELLOW PINK NAP
9 I LIKE HIS YELLOW SHIRT RED PERRY
10 YELLOW IS MY FAVE COLOR WHITE RAMIL
11 THE OCEAN IS PINK YELLOW MARL
12 I LIKE HIS PINK SHIRT
13 PINK IS MY FAVE COLOR
14 THE OCEAN IS MAGENTA
15 I LIKE HIS MAGENTA SHIRT
16 MAGENTA IS MY FAVE COLOR
17 THE OCEAN IS ORANGE
18 I LIKE HIS ORANGE SHIRT
19 ORANGE IS MY FAVE COLOR
20 THE OCEAN IS BLACK
21 I LIKE HIS YELLOW SHIRT
22 BLACK IS MY FAVE COLOR

Guys,
I tried the above formulas and its working great,but how about if there are more 7 word to find a a sentence..
My if fomulas only functioning up to seven times, meaning error if i put the 8th "IF"..

Hello Sir,

I wanted to know about this thing in excel


single value in a cell lets say A1 is 45+45+65
now i wanted to set B1 cell a formula which will sum the values in this A1



Can anyone help me out???????

You could put in a formula in the new colium:

=if(isnumber(find("apple",RC[-1])),"yes","no")

If you want to later make those cells hard-coded text, simply COPY the cells and then PASTE SPECIAL and copy just the VALUE to put in the Yes or No as plain text.

GUys, i have another problem.
This is,hope understand.
I now how to print a specific cell to " print area setup", but here is...let say i have date in A1:D15, and i have also
a legend in F1: .telling which area you what to print..
SO when I write "1" in F1 in print the whole A1:D15, when i write "2" it will only print A1:B15, and when i write
"3" it will only print C1:D15,, thanks......

Cent