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From: Colin Hayes on 5 Jun 2010 17:07

HI

I need to express something in a formula , and am having trouble with
it.

I need to say this :

IF E2 CONTAINS "1bx" OR "2bx" OR "3bx" OR "4BX" AND J2 =11 THEN PUT 1 ,
OTHERWISE PUT J2

Can someone assist with some code to make this happen , please?

Grateful for any help. Sorry for double post.



Best Wishes
From: Don Guillett on 5 Jun 2010 17:32
=IF(AND(RIGHT(E2,2)="1bx",j2=11),1,j2)

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software
dguillett(a)gmail.com
"Colin Hayes" <Colin(a)chayes.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> HI
>
> I need to express something in a formula , and am having trouble with it.
>
> I need to say this :
>
> IF E2 CONTAINS "1bx" OR "2bx" OR "3bx" OR "4BX" AND J2 =11 THEN PUT 1 ,
> OTHERWISE PUT J2
>
> Can someone assist with some code to make this happen , please?
>
> Grateful for any help. Sorry for double post.
>
>
>
> Best Wishes

From: "David Biddulph" groups [at] on 5 Jun 2010 17:42
I assume that you intended =IF(AND(RIGHT(E2,2)="bx",j2=11),1,j2) ?

"bx", not "1bx", as you've got 2, not 3, as the second parameter of the
right function?
--
David Biddulph


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> =IF(AND(RIGHT(E2,2)="1bx",j2=11),1,j2)
>
> --
> Don Guillett
> Microsoft MVP Excel
> SalesAid Software
> dguillett(a)gmail.com
> "Colin Hayes" <Colin(a)chayes.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:WY5OXLAGyrCMFwoB(a)chayes.demon.co.uk...
>>
>> HI
>>
>> I need to express something in a formula , and am having trouble with it.
>>
>> I need to say this :
>>
>> IF E2 CONTAINS "1bx" OR "2bx" OR "3bx" OR "4BX" AND J2 =11 THEN PUT 1 ,
>> OTHERWISE PUT J2
>>
>> Can someone assist with some code to make this happen , please?
>>
>> Grateful for any help. Sorry for double post.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Wishes
>

From: Colin Hayes on 5 Jun 2010 17:47
In article <eucSraPBLHA.5476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, Don Guillett
<dguillett1(a)gmail.com> writes
>=IF(AND(RIGHT(E2,2)="1bx",j2=11),1,j2)
>


Hi Don

OK Thanks for that.

I can't quite get it to work though , for what I have in mind.

I found that this works for a single search parameter :

=IF(AND(COUNTIF(E2,"*1bx*"),COUNTIF(J2,"11")),1,J2)

but of course it only looks for "*1bx*". I need in incorporate an OR
expression to also search for "*2bx*" , "*3bx*" and "*4bx*" in the same
formula.

Any ideas how to work these other values in?

Thanks for your help.

Best Wishes
From: Colin Hayes on 5 Jun 2010 18:02
In article <c5OdnVDaM7E0WZfRnZ2dnUVZ8uOdnZ2d(a)bt.com>, David Biddulph
<groups@[at]> writes
>I assume that you intended =IF(AND(RIGHT(E2,2)="bx",j2=11),1,j2) ?
>
>"bx", not "1bx", as you've got 2, not 3, as the second parameter of the
>right function?
>--
>David Biddulph

Hi David

Well no , not quite.

The formula would need to look specifically for any of the 4 phrases (
"*1bx*" OR "*2bx*" OR "*3bx*" OR "*4bx*") contained anywhere in E2.

If it finds any of these , and J2=11 , then put 1. If it doesn't find
any of these , put J2.

I would be dragging this down , so it would look in lower Cells in E
also.

There are other phrases containing the 'bx' suffix in E2 which I would
want it to ignore. So '5bx' , '6bx' would be ignored for example. For
this reason , it's not enough just to find 'bx'.

I wouldn't want the issued clouded by the fact that the expression
contains similar letters. The formula would need to identify them
discretely , in the same way as if it were looking for pink , blue ,
green or yellow.

Thanks for your help.


>


>
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>news:eucSraPBLHA.5476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> =IF(AND(RIGHT(E2,2)="1bx",j2=11),1,j2)
>>
>> --
>> Don Guillett
>> Microsoft MVP Excel
>> SalesAid Software
>> dguillett(a)gmail.com
>> "Colin Hayes" <Colin(a)chayes.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:WY5OXLAGyrCMFwoB(a)chayes.demon.co.uk...
>>>
>>> HI
>>>
>>> I need to express something in a formula , and am having trouble with it.
>>>
>>> I need to say this :
>>>
>>> IF E2 CONTAINS "1bx" OR "2bx" OR "3bx" OR "4BX" AND J2 =11 THEN PUT
>1 ,
>>> OTHERWISE PUT J2
>>>
>>> Can someone assist with some code to make this happen , please?
>>>
>>> Grateful for any help. Sorry for double post.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Wishes
>>
>

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