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Trying to find a way to find and add text in front of found text.
Yes it's possible.
Easiest to do if the yellow color in the cell (background, I presume) is there as a result of Conditional Formatting. Because if it's there in Cell A1 as a result of Conditional Formatting, that means there's a formula that can be written in B1 using the same conditional (IF) clause that leads to the conditional format.
In effect you'd want to write a formula that says IF (specified condition exists in A1) THEN ("D"&A1) , the ampersand (&) being the short-cut way to say Concatenate these two things.
If what's in A1 is a number, formatted as a number, then you'd have to use the TEXT function to convert it to text before concatenating. That could all be done in the one formula.
Now, I'm assuming you were just asking to be pointed in the right direction.....if you need more complete example, actually in a spreadsheet, by all means come back.
mathetes Thank you, I'll try this out. I'm an Excel beginner so, if you have any obvious suggestions to perform this task that would be much obliged. Thanks again for your comment.