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Seeking help with IF/vlookup/maybe Filter? (corrected question)
Hi, I'm still pretty much a newbie when it comes to Excel, and I wonder if I could ask for help with something. I have a list of several hundred high schools in our area, with multiple columns for a...
This is the formula in cell F2 in the example. The formula is copied down column F.
=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($F$1,B2)),ISNUMBER(SEARCH($F$1,C2))),"Yes","No")This is the formula in cell G2 in the example. The formula is copied down column G.
=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($G$1,D2)),ISNUMBER(SEARCH($G$1,E2))),"Yes","No")Enter the formulas with ctrl+shift+enter if you don't work with Office365 or 2021.
Now you can dynamically change the search criteria in cells F1 and G1. For example if you enter "Spanish" in cell F1 the formula returns "Yes", "No", "No" in range F2:F4.
This might work:
=BYROW(A2:E4,LAMBDA(row,IF(ISNUMBER(XMATCH("*"&"Computer Sci"&"*",row,2)),"Yes","")))
Folded into a LAMBDA named 'Classes', it's user-friendly:
=Classes(A2:E4,"Computer Sci")
Thanks so much, I'll give that a try! And I've never heard of a lambda - I'll look that up.
- Shoot. I can't get it to work. I'll keep trying.