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You can use Conditional Formatting for this purposes.
Let's say you want to look at column D. If a cell contains the word Excel (with possibly other words), the adjacent cell in column E should be highlighted in green.
Select column E (the column you want to format).
On the Home tab of the ribbon, select Conditional Formatting > New Rule...
Select 'Use a formula to determine which cells to format'.
Enter the formula
=ISNUMBER(FIND("Excel",D1))
(We use D1 because it is the first cell in the selection)
Click Format...
Activate the Fill tab.
Select green.
Click OK, then click OK again.
If you want to highlight cells in column E if the cell in column D contains both Word and Excel, do the same, but with the formula
=AND(ISNUMBER(FIND("Word",D1)),ISNUMBER(FIND("Excel",D1)))
HansVogelaar Is there a way to have this formula apply to more than one column without duplicating the formula and editing. I tried ending with ,D1:C1 but that did. not work all of the time. Thanks, John
Please explain in more detail what you want to accomplish.
- I was referring to the =ISNUMBER(FIND("WORD",B1)) Formula that you helped me with recently. In stead of searching just the B Column, I would like too search B and C columns for the term "Word". I have done it by creating two formulas and I was wondering if it could be done in one. John